Eric Hyman Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.
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I never had a long-term plan.
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If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.
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Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
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“I’d definitely be up for a trip to Mars. I’d love to record an album at zero gravity.
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You know, I do feel as though it’s more of a follow-up. I mean, we recorded this record live and in the fashion that I really wanted to do that first Bash & Pop record, although it didn’t quite turn out as live a record as we planned. The first one, anyway. So this one actually has more of a live rock ‘n’ roll band feel to it. And I really kinda wanted to make a record where I wasn’t wearing too many hats at once and I could actually, you know, capture some of the essence of a rock band playing live together in the studio.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.