Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
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There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.
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The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
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If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
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I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.
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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
