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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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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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
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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.
