Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

Clarence Clemons

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• 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.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Look

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Know

• 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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• 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?

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Morning

• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Night
  • Day

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Men
  • Long

• I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Men
  • Cool
  • Fight

• On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

  

  John Bolton

• I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

  

  Clarence Clemons