Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.
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A civil war is going to break out inside the Republican Party along the old trench lines of the Goldwater-Rockefeller wars of the 1960s, a war for the heart and soul and future of the party.
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I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
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Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
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I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
