Brian Andreas Quotes
Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
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I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
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The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.
