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.
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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.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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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.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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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.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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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.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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You have to be resilient.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have no regrets.
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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.
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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.
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We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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Having to top yourself is a good problem to have.
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I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
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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.
