Eric Weiner Quotes
Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
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It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
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The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.
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I don't really do stand-up.
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The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.
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If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.
