Mordecai Brown Quotes
Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
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I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
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I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.
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Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
