John Lee Hooker Quotes
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells.
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Il mondo รจ un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
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After going to a few Keith Urban concerts, I thought, 'I'd really like to learn how to play guitar.' I studied Keith Urban a lot and how he performed.
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Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
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Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
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I don't do nothing I don't want to do.
