David R. Brower Quotes
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
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I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
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I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
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We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
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In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.
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I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
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I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.
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I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
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Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
