Eric Clapton Quotes
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I lost my confidence.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
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And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
