Eoin Macken Quotes
You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
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Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
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You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.
