Brian Fallon Quotes
I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.
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It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.
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I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
