Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
Quotes to Explore
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
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If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.
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I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
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When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
