John Henrik Clarke Quotes
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
