Eric Clapton Quotes
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I want every Grammy.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
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People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
