Barbara Branden Quotes
Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.
Quotes to Explore
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.
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For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.
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Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.
