Hank Ballard Quotes
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.
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One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
