Stewart Brand Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
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I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
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Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
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Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
