Levon Helm Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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What matters most is the win.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.
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To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
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If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
