Brad Bird Quotes
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I love simplicity.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
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When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
