Bryan Batt Quotes
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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When I grew up reading comics, the part in the Marvel universe that was so exciting was that you could have a battle going on in 'Iron Man' and then, suddenly, Thor would fly overhead, and you realized, 'Oh, it's all one place.'
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Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
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I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.
