Allen Toussaint Quotes
This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for what they've done for New Orleans. We have really gotten a chance to find out who we are at a time like this. And where we are. We're in the greatest country in the world.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?
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Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
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This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.
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This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for what they've done for New Orleans. We have really gotten a chance to find out who we are at a time like this. And where we are. We're in the greatest country in the world.
