Luther Allison Quotes
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I get a great high from writing.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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It was a big deal. At the end of the game, we're kicking an extra point to win the game.
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Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.
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I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.