John Lee Hooker Quotes
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
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The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.
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I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
