Steve Easterbrook (Stephen James Easterbrook) Quotes
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I miss baseball.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
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No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.
