Eric Bachmann Quotes
It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
