Stewart Brand Quotes
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I love cycling.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.
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I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, 'May the Force be with you,' I always said, 'Force yourself.' … I'll say again then, 'The Force is within you. Force yourself.'
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
