Brett Davern Quotes
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
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I miss London on nights in June or in October.
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I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
