Eric Roberts Quotes
My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.
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I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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I get asked to speak to a lot of different groups, one of the best parts of my job hosting a show on the Travel Channel, 'Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.' I take viewers to the far corners of the globe and introduce them to other cultures by exploring the foods they eat - at times, pretty strange stuff.
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My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
