Levon Helm Quotes

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

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• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

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• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

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• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

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• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

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• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

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• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

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• I originally just wanted to be an artist.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

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• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  

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• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

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• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

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• I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

  

  Jeri Ryan
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• Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

  

  Maxine Peake
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• Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.

  

  Walt Disney
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• I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

  Colson Whitehead
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• The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

  

  Levon Helm
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