Brendan Gill Quotes
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I want to love life.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
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It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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I don't really think so much of what kind of man I am. I just do what I like and enjoy, and let other people think what they want.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
