Wreckless Eric (Eric Goulden) Quotes
When I was a young boy my mama said to me, 'There's only one girl in the world for you and she probably lives in Tahiti.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
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Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.
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When I was a young boy my mama said to me, 'There's only one girl in the world for you and she probably lives in Tahiti.
