Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
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I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
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To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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Working out has always been a way of life for me.
