Bryan Brown Quotes
When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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No one person is an island.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
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All wars are waged against children
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'
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These companies need to invest in America's energy infrastructure and resources. ... The oil companies need to do their part.
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When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
