In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
AL GREENPeople still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!
More Al Green Quotes
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.
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I don’t think I do have a soul.
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Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
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Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
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I’m thankful for every moment.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.
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And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
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What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.
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The music is the message, the message is the music.
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Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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I’m not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
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If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.
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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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