Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.
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Ἡ δέ τοι κύκνου δίκηντὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόονκεῖται † φιλήτως τοῦδ'.
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I'm definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I'm more of a salty snacker, though I've been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.
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One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
