John Brunner Quotes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I won't join another band again.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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You lose only the things you have.
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
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Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
