Eric Cantona Quotes
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Many cats are the death of the mouse.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
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I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.
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I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?
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The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
