Eric Swanson Quotes
Our guys are doing a nice job of stepping up and filling roles. We played great as a team tonight. We competed, we moved the ball well, and we took good shots.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
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Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
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I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
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I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.
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I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.
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Our guys are doing a nice job of stepping up and filling roles. We played great as a team tonight. We competed, we moved the ball well, and we took good shots.
