Eamon Quotes Quotes
It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.
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Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
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With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
