Eric Burdon Quotes
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
