O. J. Brigance Quotes

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

O. J. Brigance

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

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• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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• I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

  

  Naomi Watts
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  • Experience

• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Love
  • Think
  • Being There

• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Details

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
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• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Respect

• I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Myself

• 'Nathan for You' was my first time being in a writer's room, really.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Time

• The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • War
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• Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

  

  O. J. Brigance
  • Good
  • Done
  • Society