Eric Drooker Quotes
With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
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As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.
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We try to eat at home four or five days a week.
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Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
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Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
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I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.
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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
