Brendan Iribe Quotes
In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.
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Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
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In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.
