Willie Dixon Quotes

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

Willie Dixon

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• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Man
  • Law
  • Couple

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• Reading is power. Reading is life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Power
  • Reading

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Perfect
  • Purpose
  • Film

• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • People
  • Football
  • Win

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• In the past, you would take the time to write a love letter and you would think about what you wanted to say and compose it in a certain way. Now, everything is so short. It has to be, because it is rushed, and therefore, in a way, it loses a little bit of its importance. But I think it is very important to take the time to say what you want to say.

  

  Haider Ackermann
  • Time
  • Important
  • Past

• He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Car

• I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Important
  • Children
  • Feeling

• There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Mother
  • Single
  • Search

• I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Past
  • Present
  • Inspiration