Brian Andreas Quotes
Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
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Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.
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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
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Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.
