D. W Brogan Quotes
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
