Eric Carmen Quotes
Yeah, it's funny how 30 years and having families and developing lives tends to change people.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
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The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.
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Yeah, it's funny how 30 years and having families and developing lives tends to change people.
