Brad Henry Quotes
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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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 have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.
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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
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Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.
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No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
