Pierce Brown Quotes
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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We have a special relationship with Israel. It's absolutely crucial that no one in our country or around the world ever doubt that our number one committment in the Middle East is to protect the right of Israel to exist, to exist permanently, and to exist in peace. It's a special relationship.
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Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
