Brian McDermott Quotes
It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.
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Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.
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Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
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We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
