Brandon Webb Quotes
Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.
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Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.
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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
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Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.
