Tedashii Lavoy Anderson (Tedashii) Quotes
We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
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The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
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My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.
