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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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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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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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
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Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.
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'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.
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From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
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Do you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills.
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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!
