Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.
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America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
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Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
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When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.
