Allen Toussaint Quotes
To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
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If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
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If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.
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To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
