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'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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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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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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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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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
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It was so good to see Irma's face when we made this album, ... She did us proud.
