Bre Pettis Quotes
If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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I had a little radio, and I listened to music in my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I loved the DJs who would come on and talk about the artists and the songs they were singing, and they gave away prizes. I was like, 'This is a cool job!'
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It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
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If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
