David Brenner Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
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My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
