Levon Helm Quotes
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.
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It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.
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Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Life outraces memory.
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By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
