Brian Christian Quotes
Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.
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Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
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Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.
