John Lee Hooker Quotes

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

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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If someone had written a review saying, ''Oh, Hello' is stupid,' we would have said, 'Yeah, it is. You're absolutely right.' That people liked it was extremely cool.

John Mulaney

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My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father admired Frederick Douglass' courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.

Angela McGlowan

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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Stanley Hauerwas

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Sophocles

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The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

Steven Van Zandt

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For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Rob Dyrdek

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There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.

Rory Kennedy

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The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

Roy Lichtenstein

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I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

Ron Chernow

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I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.

Michaela Coel

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When I come to spar, I definitely come to spar; I definitely come to fight.

Deontay Wilder

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It took eight years for DDP Yoga to become an overnight sensation.

Diamond Dallas Page

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