Eric Thomas Quotes
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
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I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
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I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
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Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.
