Brent Spiner Quotes
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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'You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.'
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Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
