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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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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If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.
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Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.
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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
