Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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Life is a school of probability.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
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Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
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With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
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As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?
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KING: Well, some Christians are.
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I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
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I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
