Eric Clapton Quotes
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
Karin Slaughter
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I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.
Gary Glitter
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.
Jack Kirby
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Get low; grace will meet you there.
Jack Miller
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
Bessie Smith
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
Joe Gibbs
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I think that these data present real concerns about how can we use this class in the future. And it certainly says it makes little sense to make it an important part of drug stockpiles for pandemic response.
B. R. Hayden
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Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
Albert Bandura
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Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.
Albert Bandura
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
Leon Uris
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Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
Alfred Loisy
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As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.
M. Scott Peck
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People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
Barack Obama
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Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Brian Tracy
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Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Charles Dickens
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Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
A.J. Cronin
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse
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Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
Kalle Lasn
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith