David Brenner Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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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 usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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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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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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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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He falls in the pit he digs for others.
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Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
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I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
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Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.
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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
