H. W. Brands Quotes

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

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• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  

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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

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• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

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• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

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• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  

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• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

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• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

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• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

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• I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

  

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• Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

  

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• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

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• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

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• Raffi: I can too marry Stone Cold Steve Austin when I grow up!Bill: Clarice, what are you teaching this kid?Bill Jr.: You can not, 'cause I'm gonna marry him, and we're gonna kick your butt!

  

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• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

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• I wore a uniform to school, so the white-on-white or black-on-black Air Force 1 Low was the simple sneaker to wear, but it was the standard.

  

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• I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

  

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  

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• I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

  

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• A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • House
  • Sole
  • Domestic worker