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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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 -
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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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter – with infinite subtlety – spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, – and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; – and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.
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They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
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Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
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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.
