John Lee Hooker Quotes
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
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I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
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I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.
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Take three quarts of duck's milk...
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If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
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Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.
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The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
