Chester Brown Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?
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We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
