Brian Binnie Quotes
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I don't have time to be negative.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
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The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
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I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves under the very fangs of the monster.
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
