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
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• 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
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• 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
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Artist
  • Human
  • Find

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Way
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• 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
  • People
  • Play
  • Write

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Car
  • Golf
  • Speed

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• 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
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• 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
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Always

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• 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
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• The interesting thing for 'Playing House' to me is we both are at crossroads in the pilot. We both have our lives kind of upside-down, and then because we're taking care of each other, we're able to move forward and live our best lives.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Live
  • House
  • Interesting

• Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Habit

• Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

  

  Cobi Jones

• We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Dream
  • Fear
  • Attention

• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

  

  John Lee Hooker