Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
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I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.
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I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.
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He whom we anatomized‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowersand thought on his wit and how neatly he described things’speaksto us, hatching marrow,broody all night over the bones of a deadman.
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There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
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Our job is to execute.
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
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You can have bans on assault weapons or whatever weapons you wish, and it's not going to protect from a violent person.
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By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.
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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
