Brian Friel Quotes
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I'm a very hands-on producer.
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The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.
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Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.
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To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
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Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
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It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
