Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
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We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
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Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
