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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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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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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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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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 love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
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What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.
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He is a people person and is very talented, as indicated by his proven track record.
