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 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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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.
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The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
