Luther Allison Quotes

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

Luther Allison

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• I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Death
  • Dying

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Feel
  • Matter

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Future
  • Europe

• I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Camera
  • Seeing

• I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Wine
  • Library

• A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Internet
  • Wrong
  • Horrible

• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Long
  • America
  • Faith

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Beat
  • Liberalism

• Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• President Trump can't vote for me. The people that sent me up here sent me up here to repeal and replace, 100 percent, the Affordable Care Act.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Care
  • Trump

• I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Sick

• Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

  

  Frank Bruno
  • Fun
  • Boxing

• When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • People
  • Soul

• It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Book
  • Working

• I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

  

  Luther Allison