Eric Clapton Quotes

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

Eric Clapton Blind Faith

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• I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Like

• Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Famous
  • Yourself
  • Inside

• When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Years
  • Old
  • Pounds

• I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writer
  • Possible
  • Knew

• Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Control
  • Water
  • Homeless

• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Live
  • Man

• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Age
  • Horse
  • Listen

• I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Emotional
  • I Can

• When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Years
  • Green
  • Grateful

• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Hand

• Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Face
  • Protect
  • Wear

• Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Time
  • Words
  • Mean

• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Poverty

• The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Law

• Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Eyes
  • Blue
  • Talent

• The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Vampire
  • Pregnant
  • Dawn

• To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Important
  • Humor
  • Politician

• Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Art
  • Prayer
  • Forgiving

• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
  • Difficult
  • Creation
  • Despair

• The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

  

  Abu Madyan
  • Sinner
  • Obedient

• the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Behinds
  • Painful
  • Forgiving