Barrett Brown Quotes
Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
