Eric Clapton Quotes

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

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• I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

  

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

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• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

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• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

  

  Nas
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• I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
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• Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Bass
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• We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
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• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  

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• I feel it's better to be loved and respected. If people fear you, you can get killed. If you're feared, nobody likes you. If you're feared nobody treats you the right way. You never get the right answers. You ask somebody if this is good, they'll tell you it's good even if it's bad. Nobody wants to be feared. You want to be respected.

  

  LL Cool J
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• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  

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• Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

  

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• I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

  

  Bette Davis
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• Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

  

  William Blackstone
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• 100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • People
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  • Remember

• His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

  

  Clement Clarke Moore
  • Up
  • Snow
  • Mouth

• I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Hurts
  • Grandparent