Brent Spiner Quotes
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
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When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.
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P. 33.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.
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What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
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There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
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One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised.
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I'm an avid biography reader.
