Allen Toussaint Quotes
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.
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I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
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The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
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It was so good to see Irma's face when we made this album, ... She did us proud.
