Brian J. White Quotes
I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
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There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;Touch'd by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.
