Allen Toussaint Quotes
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
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It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
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Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.
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I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
