Brock Yates Quotes
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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The killing of the horses a bullfight in Madrid, he visited in June 1910 by the bull is very horrible, much more so as they have no chance to escape and are ridden up to the bull to be butchered.. ..the entry of the bull into the ring however is very beautiful; his surprise and the first charges he makes are very pretty.
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I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
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My dad was a preacher.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
