Bob Brown Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
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I'm superstitious.
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Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
