Ted Allen Quotes
Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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There were only about 50 people there, and they were all enjoying the band, and almost all were dancing. One fellow was standing off to the side watching for the longest time; it was Dustin Hoffman. He loved it. He said it reminded him of when he was a little boy and his parents took him to see Ted Lewis. Martin Short was a riot. He said, "I wanna sing with Johnny Crawford!".
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
