Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
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Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
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I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.
