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'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 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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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
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Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
