Blake Farenthold Quotes
If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I never read lying down.
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Hope is not a strategy.
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It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.
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I don't ever feel like I have it all together.
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If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
