Eddie Slovik Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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'Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.'
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
