Ian Brown Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The audiences love to see me fight on screen.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I don't question God.
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Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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Something I've done since I was a kid – of opening windows and imagining what it would be like to jump. But I never take it seriously.
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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
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Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.