Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
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The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
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I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.
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For me it's always about trying to consistently maintain a fit and body-conscious eating schedule so three days before I'm not like, 'Oh my God - I have a bathing suit shoot I have to do.'
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You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Korean nationalism is its emphasis on the vulnerability of the race.
