John Lee Hooker Quotes

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

John Lee Hooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicMoneyMeCareYouPlay

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Joe Klein

AgeMeJournalismDoneWayThings

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Max Beerbohm

CharacterMenPeopleDeepThinking

The thing about LeBron is he's very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball.

Metta World Peace

RightBallPassUnselfishHeVery

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

Steve Coogan

I AmAppreciationFamousAmericaYou

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

Stacey D'Erasmo

UnexpectedDistanceHandNeverFirst

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

Rowan Atkinson

JobThinkThoughtActingDifficult

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

Michael Specter

HealthEndHelpWillSightHunger

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Louis Theroux

LifeShameEverythingBeingAlmost

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

Jason Blum

WorkMoneyFinancePeopleBelieve

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

Bobby Bonilla

TrainingSpringYouReadyPlaceTry

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

Anne Parillaud

TimelessShouldImpersonal

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Annie Lennox

WomenTogetherPeopleVoiceStrong

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