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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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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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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It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
