Levon Helm Quotes
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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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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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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I played Joseph in 'Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat,' which was a bit silly because I am a girl. I wanted to be the narrator, but I had fun with it anyway.
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As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
