"I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Allen Toussaint

#Piano Quotes #Forte Quotes #Performers Quotes

“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
“I donâ€™t like gambling very much. I donâ€™t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.”
“As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.”

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“Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.95, Da Capo Press
“When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”

Source : Prentice Mulford (2015). “Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding”, p.149, e-artnow
“We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.568, Best Books on
“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
“America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.”

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