Sammy Hagar (Samuel Roy Hagar) Quotes
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.
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Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
