Eric Clapton Quotes
The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
