Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

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• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

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• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

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• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

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• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

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• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

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• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

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• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

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• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

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• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

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• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

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• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

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• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

  

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• To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.

  

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

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• Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

  

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• When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

  

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• The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

  

  Clarence Clemons
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  • Black