Douglas Brunt Quotes
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups-(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.
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This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious.
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We're creating a brand image which didn't exist in the beginning, and I want to grow that. And in the way that the clothes and services we offer are a luxurious niche, I want to be doing that with accessories.
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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
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I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.
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Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
