Brendan I. Koerner Quotes
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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I am writing to you in the hope that the conflict in Vietnam can be brought to an end. That conflict has already taken a heavy toll-in lives lost, in wounds inflicted, in property destroyed, and in simple human misery. If we fail to find a just and peaceful solution, history will judge us harshly.
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The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
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Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.
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James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
