John Lee Hooker
Related MUHAMMAD ALI I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX VINCE VAUGHN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH JONATHAN WINTERS TONY KUSHNER You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right. YOUNG JEEZY Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't ... CHARLES DURNING Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn... SARAH PARISH MARK TWAIN DAVID EDWARDS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your ca... DANA PERINO KEN ROBINSON I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on. FLAVOR FLAV There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can&... JACK REYNOR You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at. ERIC BRISTOW SHANLEY CASWELL I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night. EDWARD P. JONES About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN BETTY WILLIAMS When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mi... AL ALVAREZ It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE LENA DUNHAM HELEN MIRREN You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful ... DAMIAN LEWIS I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you ... MAGGIE CAREY Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write... RICKEY MEDLOCKE NICKI MINAJ CHELSEA HANDLER You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ... IMELDA STAUNTON SOPHIA AMORUSO FETTY WAP Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ... DAVID CHASE You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing ... GWYNNE SHOTWELL DALE ARCHER CINDY CRAWFORD ROGER MOORE By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps ru... CARLA KORBES I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live y... BERNHARD GOETZ DANA CARVEY I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's... HASAN M. ELAHI You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just w... AUSTIN BUTLER JANE FONDA MARCUS SAMUELSSON If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you... LINDA EVANS The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't ... ALAN SUGAR TOMMY CHONG BO BURNHAM You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI TOMI LAHREN EDWARD ZWICK MARIA SHRIVER GERALDINE BROOKS Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'... CHRIS CARTER No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha... TASHA SMITH STEVIE WONDER LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA ROSALYNN CARTER AARON SORKIN When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH BARTON GELLMAN My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON BUSTA RHYMES You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live... BERNHARD GOETZ If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you... DARIN STRAUSS LORRAINE HANSBERRY I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about.... ELAINE STRITCH They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge... JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK TOMMY CHONG MIKE NICHOLS JIM DAVIS PATTI SMITH There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED KEVIN GARNETT MARIAN ANDERSON When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO NANCY REAGAN I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tan... BOB EHRLICH NICK KROLL JIM ROHN Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out. VINCENT SCHIAVELLI Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca... LARRY HAGMAN CARLES PUIGDEMONT You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you. KATIE COURIC RICK RIORDAN You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t... GARY WEBB In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. Yo... NICOLAS SARKOZY BILL WATTERSON Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the pian... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You ca... JAKE ROBERTS GEORGE HARRISON JOEL EDGERTON
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I am a happy man. I've had a good life. JOHN LEE HOOKER The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. JOHN LEE HOOKER I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. JOHN LEE HOOKER I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The barte... JOHN LEE HOOKER The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this ... JOHN LEE HOOKER I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there ... JOHN LEE HOOKER In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all... JOHN LEE HOOKER All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them. JOHN LEE HOOKER Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em... JOHN LEE HOOKER I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis ... JOHN LEE HOOKER I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in ... JOHN LEE HOOKER JOHN JAY HOOKER JOHN JAY HOOKER JOHN JAY HOOKER JOHN JAY HOOKER JOHN JAY HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER THOMAS HOOKER THOMAS HOOKER THOMAS HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER THOMAS HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER We mixed it up, and we came out much more aggressive. Keith Fagan did a great job shooting the ball.... DAVE HOOKER I held on to the ledge and he sat in the window. AMY HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER Mud season is also sugaring season. We really prefer a long and difficult spring. ... We're alone in... PATRICK HOOKER I'm her cheerleader and she's my cheerleader. I wanted to be here with her. I don't know if she's go... DESTINEE HOOKER My first two months have been amazing. I could still be in high school, trying to get 5-10. DESTINEE HOOKER I thought I was second until they told me I won, so I was kind of surprised. I'm not happy with the ... DESTINEE HOOKER The seniors stepped up and played really well. My juniors stepped up, too. It was a total team effor... DAVE HOOKER Every day with this team we've gotten better. One day our hard work is going to pay off. DAVE HOOKER It's young errors and it's just a matter of experience. The difference today was our effort and atti... HELENE HOOKER I was pleased with the way Candace played. (Compared to earlier in the season) we played better. HELENE HOOKER They were all getting hits. HELENE HOOKER It was OK, but I have some work to do and I'm ready to get it done. There's lots of things to take c... MARSHEVET HOOKER I'm trying to get the job done to get another championship. It's going to take everything clicking. ... MARSHEVET HOOKER I was just thinking about getting points on the scoreboard for my team. I heard the crowd, so I figu... MARSHEVET HOOKER I just knew that I had to run all the way through the line. It was a great field, and I knew that ev... MARSHEVET HOOKER I wanted it a lot more. PETER HOOKER RICHARD HOOKER There was an inflight breakup of the aircraft, JOHN LEE I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's... JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousn... JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next gu... JOHN LEE HANCOCK In my defense, I was left unsupervised. LEE ST. JOHN A good deed is a good deed. JOHN LEE HANCOCK I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in... JOHN LEE HANCOCK I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's. JOHN LEE HANCOCK I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's f... JOHN LEE HANCOCK I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. JOHN LEE HANCOCK I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. JOHN LEE HANCOCK LEE CHILD JENNIFER LEE SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha... AILEEN LEE LEE RADZIWILL AMY LEE LEE HANEY AMY LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world. VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. VERNON LEE HARPER LEE HARPER LEE HARPER LEE HARPER LEE HARPER LEE LEE TREVINO JIM LEE SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS HARPER LEE SPIKE LEE BRANDON LEE SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you... ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ... ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels. ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me. LEE NORRIS LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it... LAURIE LEE LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. LEE DANIELS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ... LEE DANIELS General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squ... LEE SMOLIN HARPER LEE TOMMY LEE BRANDON LEE AMY LEE ANG LEE LEE IACOCCA LEE RADZIWILL I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre... LEE DANIELS JIM LEE I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'... BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi... BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against... BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop... BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE BRANDON LEE LEE TREVINO When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pu... AILEEN LEE LEE STROBEL LEE HANEY I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have ... STAN LEE Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come... FRANCIS LEE Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lo... LEE DEWYZE TOMMY LEE SPIKE LEE The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th... ALAN LEE He must teach evolution exclusively observable scientific fact, not beliefs or religion. I fully bel... ALAN LEE They're not sure exactly where they're going. ALAN LEE Most are extremely embarrassed and humiliated. They're not used to asking for help. We've given them... ALAN LEE ANG LEE BLAINE LEE BLAINE LEE BLAINE LEE LEE CHILD The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know... LAURENCE LEE If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big b... GEDDY LEE My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count... SHERYL LEE A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect... LEE TAMAHORI Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and ha... AMOS LEE SPIKE LEE Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come... SHERYL LEE SPIKE LEE I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold... ED LEE The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ... LEE BRICE BRUCE LEE Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their... IVY LEE I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I... STEWART LEE Victory Stadium, I'm surprised it's not No. 1. It tells me that the people who are in position to ef... AARON LEE He understood his economic situation. That's part of his work ethic. He knows how Stephanie struggle... AARON LEE When you see him smile, you really don't know what he's gone through to get to that point emotionall... AARON LEE The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the ki... AARON LEE Any death is tragic and our condolences are extended to Mr. Lee and his family, ... We regret his de... AARON LEE Once he was in custody, an ambulance was immediately called because of his bizarre behavior, his nud... AARON LEE He was Tased multiple times. Understand that when the probes go out and attach to the body, you can ... AARON LEE He was sweaty at this time and that made it difficult for the officers to control him, AARON LEE We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more conveni... AILEEN LEE LEE MARVIN Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet ... MELODY LEE TOMMY LEE I played with different words like 'home run,' 'megahit,' and they just all sounded ... AILEEN LEE TOMMY LEE When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. LEE SALK LEE IACOCCA LEE IACOCCA LEE IACOCCA LEE IACOCCA No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. LEE RUDOLPH The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. NATHANIEL LEE BRUCE LEE BRUCE LEE BRUCE LEE BRUCE LEE BRUCE LEE The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know... LAURENCE LEE No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. LEE RUDOLPH Obviously when you play, you play to win. That's our goal, to go out and win the region first and th... ALEX LEE I don't think we're your average first-year team. We have a lot of guys who have played before and h... ALEX LEE
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep ... 
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ... 
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... 
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... 
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... 
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain... 
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b... 
I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on yo... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa... 
It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca... 
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... 
Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have ... 
You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big b... 
You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the c... 
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it... 
'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Be... 
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... 
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down step... 
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha... 
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. 
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't wo... 
The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You'... 
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations. 
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... 
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho... 
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'... 
At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in towa... 
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned not... 
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing.... 
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch... 
When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. 
You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca... 
At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you c... 
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fi... 
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... 
Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a communit... 
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It... 
If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - per... 
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life. 
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... 
Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas o... 
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the ... 
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legis... 
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and i... 
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. 
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be s... 
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worl... 
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. 
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: wha... 
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better 
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. 
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Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi... 
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. 
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Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... 
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh... 
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma... 
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... 
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. 
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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. 
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You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there. 
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When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the ac... 
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately... 
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. 
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... 
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. 
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When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a... 
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awa... 