Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
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I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.
