Brian Jordan Quotes
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.
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It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.
