Jonathan Brown Quotes
We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.
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I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.
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Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
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We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.
