Eddie Trunk Quotes
I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
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My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.
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When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
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I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
