Eamon Doyle (Eamon) Quotes
My lyrical content is adult shit, but it's not. Everybody curses now, and teenagers swear more than anyone. I've got a three-year-old nephew running around the house saying to me, "Fuck you, you ho." It's fucking insane, man.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
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When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.
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I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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My lyrical content is adult shit, but it's not. Everybody curses now, and teenagers swear more than anyone. I've got a three-year-old nephew running around the house saying to me, "Fuck you, you ho." It's fucking insane, man.
