Eric Burdon Quotes
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I have learned that there's a little bit of a danger in stressing ourselves out and living in the future - worry affects how we are today.
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Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
