John Lee Hooker Quotes

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

John Lee Hooker

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• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• 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.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• 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.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Me
  • Made
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Conflict
  • Balancing

• 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.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Happened
  • Without

• It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • True
  • Team
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Time

• Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Time

• Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Past

• Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

  

  John Burnside
  • Beautiful

• Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Success
  • Past
  • Team

• I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Records
  • Fan
  • Pink Floyd

• I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

  

  John Lee Hooker