Bryant H. McGill Quotes
In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
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Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
