Brian Andreas Quotes
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
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I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
