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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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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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Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
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Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.
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I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.
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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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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.
