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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Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me.
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I appreciate Detroit so much.
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Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?
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I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
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When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
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If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
