Adam Braver Quotes
In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I can't die but once.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
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In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
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Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
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Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.
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According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
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People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
