Eric Burdon Quotes
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
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I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
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OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
