Brian McBride Quotes
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
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I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same - the orchestra will hate him.
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All is race, there is no other truth.
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Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
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Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
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I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
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I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
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I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
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Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.
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Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.
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To arms, to arms! The British are coming, the British are coming!
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Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.
