Brandon Sanderson Quotes
'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I hate birthdays.
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I begin again, Dr.Y,this neverland journal,full of my own sense of filth.Why else keep a journal, if notto examine your own filth?
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I see myself as a climber and an activist.
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Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
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'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'
