Eddie Rickenbacker
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That's what was cool about Houdin... DAVID BLAINE I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,... T. J. PERKINS When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE PETE TOWNSHEND VANILLA ICE KEVIN HART JULIA ROBERTS LEONARDO DICAPRIO DEEP ROY There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My... TAMARA TUNIE COREY HAWKINS You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I coul... BUBBA SPARXXX LEE TREVINO KENDALL JENNER NORTON JUSTER I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ... RICHARD FLEESHMAN MARIE WINDSOR ALANIS MORISSETTE OLGA KURYLENKO KEN LIVINGSTONE OMARI HARDWICK QUINCY JONES HARLAND WILLIAMS KANYE WEST I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I go... 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EDDIE TRUNK EDDIE REDMAYNE Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe... EDDIE TRUNK EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform. EDDIE TRUNK I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist... EDDIE TRUNK I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ... EDDIE TRUNK My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music. EDDIE TRUNK I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik... EDDIE TRUNK I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside... EDDIE TRUNK When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in... EDDIE TRUNK I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times. EDDIE TRUNK Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable. EDDIE TRUNK It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro... EDDIE TRUNK One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews. EDDIE TRUNK People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me... EDDIE TRUNK I've known Bret Michaels forever. EDDIE TRUNK I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#... EDDIE TRUNK One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo... EDDIE TRUNK I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v... EDDIE TRUNK The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that... EDDIE TRUNK VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show. EDDIE TRUNK How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia... EDDIE TRUNK One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que... EDDIE TRUNK The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ... EDDIE TRUNK People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think... EDDIE TRUNK Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J... EDDIE TRUNK Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it. EDDIE TRUNK They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that.... EDDIE SLOVIK I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y... EDDIE SLOVIK I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble. EDDIE SLOVIK Army life don't agree with me. EDDIE SLOVIK The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial. EDDIE SLOVIK I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going. EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky. 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EDDIE PEREZ If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ... EDDIE OBENG We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future. EDDIE OBENG We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no l... EDDIE OBENG In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. EDDIE OBENG I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball. EDDIE MURRAY And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m... EDDIE MURRAY And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me... EDDIE MURRAY I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians. EDDIE MURRAY I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseba... EDDIE MURRAY It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything. EDDIE MURRAY Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here. EDDIE MURRAY Baseball is a team game. EDDIE MURRAY No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he... EDDIE MURRAY When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games. EDDIE MURRAY And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home... EDDIE MURRAY For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning. EDDIE MURRAY I learned life from some good teachers. EDDIE MURRAY When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned... EDDIE MURRAY You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together. 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EDDIE MONEY Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my ... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's mor... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm ... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonha... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unles... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed! EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you'... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten ye... EDDIE MATHEWS It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm... EDDIE MATHEWS My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it. EDDIE MARSAN I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very luc... EDDIE MARSAN I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker. EDDIE MARSAN I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. EDDIE MARSAN As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify ... EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibilit... EDDIE MARSAN Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of diff... EDDIE MARSAN I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d... EDDIE MARSAN With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm go... EDDIE MARSAN I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl... EDDIE MARSAN I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ... EDDIE MARSAN What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. ... EDDIE MARSAN I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East E... EDDIE MARSAN In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare.... EDDIE MARSAN I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. EDDIE MARSAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a... EDDIE MARSAN I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 1... EDDIE MARSAN If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then... EDDIE MARSAN
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