Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.
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There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
