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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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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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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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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My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
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You help families focus on the future through their children.
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.
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Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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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.
