Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

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• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
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• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
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• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
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• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
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  • Feet
  • Meat

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
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• You have to be resilient.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
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• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
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• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
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• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Life
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• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
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• I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Trust
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• I have no regrets.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Up
  • Walk
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• Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • Life
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• I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
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• My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

  

  John C. Mather
  • School
  • Age
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• In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fighting

• I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Good
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• It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Good
  • Result
  • Actions