Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

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• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • High
  • Moments

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mom

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Think
  • Control

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Wish
  • Football

• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Sincerity

• TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Most

• The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I don't trust President Obama with our records. I know you gave him a big hug, and if you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Trust
  • Hug

• When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Wall

• I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Focus

• I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Free
  • Fruit

• Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Great
  • Smile