Brian Dunkleman Quotes
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I always have to be writing.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep.
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When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
