Allan Sloan Quotes
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.
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My family has always provided me unconditional love and support.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
