Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Your subconscious is your best friend
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.
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Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
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Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
