Eric Carmen Quotes
When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
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I'm not rich.
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We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
