John Lee Hooker Quotes

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

John Lee Hooker

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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.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Hard
  • Shadow
  • Beyonce

• My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Everyone
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Mother
  • End

• 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.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Questions
  • Principles

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Time
  • Summer
  • Back

• I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Think
  • First
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Think
  • Page

• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Wanted
  • Everyone
  • Opera

• 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.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Past

• Take three quarts of duck's milk...

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Reality
  • Peace
  • Empathy

• Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Dream
  • Wisdom

• I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

  

  Jennifer Esposito

• What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit - and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization - is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts.

  

  Elinor Ostrom
  • Action
  • Organization
  • Missing

• The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Up
  • Science
  • Earth

• The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

  

  John Lee Hooker