Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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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.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I have a pretty lousy voice.
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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.
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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.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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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.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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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.
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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.
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My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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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.
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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.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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Either be silent or say something better than silence.
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We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
