Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
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How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?
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I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.
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The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.
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I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.
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Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
