Levon Helm Quotes
You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.
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Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.
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I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.
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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
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You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
