Erik Rutan Quotes
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
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The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.
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There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.
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I've always used Old English in certain songs.
