Eric Bogosian Quotes
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.
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The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
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I will continue to fight any and all drilling that occurs within 100 miles of our coast or encroaches on our military mission in the Eastern Gulf.
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I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
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Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.
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As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
