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 know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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Shower the people you love with love.Show them the way that you feel.Things are gonna work out fine if you only will (do as I say, yeah).Shower the people you love with love.Show them the way that you feel.Things are gonna be much better if you only will.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
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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.