Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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I’ll look for the joke in things so that I don’t look for the sadness and the grief.
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Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
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Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza.
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I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.
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Everybody calls me Big Man.
