John Lee Hooker Quotes
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
John Lee Hooker
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
Yuvraj Singh
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Kate Beckinsale
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
Randy Johnson
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
Yael Naim
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
Eddy Cue
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
Samuel P. Huntington
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
Garth Brooks
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
Vincent Cassel
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
Larry David
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
Yolandi Visser
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If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.
J. J. Watt
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
Edgar Meyer
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ must be understood as representing no more primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.
Laura Riding
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
Anne M. Mulcahy
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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
Bill Gates
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[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.
Al Pacino
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.
Christine Sinclair
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Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
John Lee Hooker
