Brian Williams Quotes
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
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My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.
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When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.
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As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.
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Some people are afraid to dress in ways that they actually like because it might be different than what most people expect or how others dress.
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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
