Eric Clapton Quotes
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
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Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
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I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it all together.
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It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.
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I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
