Brandon Webb Quotes
I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
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Music can't change the world.
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I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.
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Worst part is the post project low that seems to happen after being on a project that you love. I don’t hate things, but I really really passionately dislike going from being around a 'film family' every day and loving every minute of it, then after the film is over you rarely see each other again and if you do its very few and far in between.
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There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.
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I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
