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 want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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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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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
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Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
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If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.
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The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
