Marshall Brickman Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.
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I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
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I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
