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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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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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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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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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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I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.
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We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.
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Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
