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John Lee Hooker Quotes

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

John Lee Hooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001

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Work Me Night Remember Back Know

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Meat Loaf

Me Camera You Too Much Know Noise

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Maurice Ravel

Work Art Remember Emotion Real

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

Michael Burry

I Am Group Matter Outside Always

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

Tracy Chapman

Life Together Me My Life Something

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Robert Dallek

Become Matters See Point Vietnam

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

Rodman Philbrick

Creative School Writing Never Write

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

Marriage Myself Government Husband

I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.

Michelle Yeoh

Day Dress Fashion End Of The Day End

Our Samsung Medical Center has caused too big a pain and worry for the people by failing to prevent the infection and spread of MERS. I bow my head in apology.

Jay Y. Lee

Pain Medical People Worry Apology

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Man Places Senses Objects Himself

I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, 'Hey Dierks, what can I show you?' I said, 'The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.' I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.

Dierks Bentley

Day Think You Phone New Said

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Phil Gramm

Story Immigration American America