Erin McKean Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
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Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
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I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
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The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.
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John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.
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As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.
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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.
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There's no bigger thrill than beating the guy you're not supposed to beat or winning a race you're not supposed to win.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
