Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes

Those who haven’t yet grasped the ideological realities of the Korean peninsula probably never will.

Brian Reynolds Myers

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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
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• A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

  

  E. W. Howe
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  • Old

• At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
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• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

  

  Iris Chang
  • History
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  • Very

• Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
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  • America

• At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
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• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
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  • Good
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• The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
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• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
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• I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a 'girl,' the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Strong

• J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time

• The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
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• Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

  

  Angela Ahrendts

• People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
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• I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Green
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• Those who haven’t yet grasped the ideological realities of the Korean peninsula probably never will.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers