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'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 love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.
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The sacrifice lives, but the sun’s still shining.
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There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is Man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case we have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know.
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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
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If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.
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I don’t want to hurt or injure anyone. I just want to win. I have to win, so I do what I have to do.
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
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As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
