Eric Swalwell Quotes
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
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Basketball is basketball.
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I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
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'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best—' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
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In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.
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Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
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My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.
