Brian Herbert Quotes
My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.
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Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
