Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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We've always believed in our music.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
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When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.
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For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.
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A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.
