Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
AL GREENSome people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
More Al Green Quotes
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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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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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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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I’m not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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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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Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.
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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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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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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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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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So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
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I’m thankful for every moment.
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I’d never be able to see the shore.
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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
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The music is the message, the message is the music.
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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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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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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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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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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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