Allen Toussaint Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.
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And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
