Eric Clapton Quotes
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.
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Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
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I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
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I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
