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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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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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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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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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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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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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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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
