Allen Toussaint Quotes
Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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Accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative.
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The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
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Usually, in daily life, we are motivated to do something, then we do it. But when mood is low, we have to do something before the motivation comes.
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When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.
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Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.
