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.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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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.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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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.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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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.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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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.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
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Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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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.
