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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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.
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I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
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I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good.
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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.
