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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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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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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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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I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.
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The water is coming from the river. The water is coming from the lake. The water is coming from the canals. And it's meeting up right here.
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I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!
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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
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But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.
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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.
