H. W. Brands Quotes
We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one...
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Ὄξος τ' ἄλειφά τ' ἐγχέας ταὐτῷ κύτειδιχοστατοῦντ' ἂν οὐ φίλως † προσεννέποις.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.
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I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
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I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
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We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one...
