Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Figure out who you are.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.
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I remember the shock of seeing Ray undressed. He looked as if he had a squirrel hanging there. I had an acorn.
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I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world.
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A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
