Eric Clapton Quotes
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I would love to do some theater.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I started out doing musicals.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
