Eric Jay Beck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  • When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

  • C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.

  • Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

  • Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  • There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  • I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  • When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  • Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  • Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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