Brian Tee (Jaebeom Takata) Quotes
It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.
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As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
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Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
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It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'
