Sergey Brin Quotes
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.
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When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon - we enjoy the taste of it more than pork - and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it's like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.
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Your instincts are telling you something. Trust them and listen to them.
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We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
