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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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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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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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.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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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.
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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.
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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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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.
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What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
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I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
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I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
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Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way.
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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.
