#know

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#berry #big #buddy #buddy holly #charisma

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#control #despotic #does #elite #form

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#after #arrow #bow #couple #good

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bits #difficult #drawings #great #guys

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#being #best #best way #character #i

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#back #day #hard #hard day #i

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#country #die #doing #go #know

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#i #know #lose #lost #might

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges. ↗

— Fred Upton

#challenges #cost #exploding #fiscal #fiscal challenges

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence