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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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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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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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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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.
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There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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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.
