Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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Like a page of music, like an upper air, Like a momentary color, in which swans Were seraphs, were saints, were changing essences. The west wind was the music, the motion, the force To which the swans curveted, a will to change, A will to make iris frettings on the blank.
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Art is not an end but a beginning.
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We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.
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You need raw talent to be successful.
