Brian Perkins Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.'
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
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I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.
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I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
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Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
