Brent Spiner Quotes
And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
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I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
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And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
