Brian McKnight Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
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I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
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The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
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I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.
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I am just a guy that watches sports all day.
