Max Brooks Quotes
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.
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When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe that that music and the voice, or the narrative, create. A music video-and any other kind of visual reference-is created by someone else.
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Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys.
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Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
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The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.
