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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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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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 respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.
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We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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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.
