Brent Spiner Quotes
If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
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If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
