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John Lee Hooker

"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't."

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"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."

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Amber Hurdle

"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."

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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

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"Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right."

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Amber Hurdle

"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."

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Amber Hurdle

"Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch."

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"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."
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"I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to."
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"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."
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"But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road."
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"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."
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"You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop."
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"I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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"I am a happy man. I've had a good life."
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