Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

Clarence Clemons

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• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

  

  Jack Black
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Thought

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Tough

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• Anything that consoles is fake.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Fake
  • Anything
  • Consoles

• In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Words
  • Rest

• Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, 'Because it's there!' I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Hate

• I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Marijuana

• The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Mind

• I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

  

  Sumner Redstone
  • Win
  • Will
  • Excellence

• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  

  Homer
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Tears

• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Learn
  • Looks

• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  

  Bill Maher
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Career

• We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

  

  Clarence Clemons