Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
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Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.
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To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
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It's huge. We've just got to keep our confidence. We're going to have some big at-bats. We have to stay confident and come through in them.
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Money is a hazard.
