John Lee Hooker Quotes
I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.
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As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.
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It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.
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I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.
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I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
