Barrett Brown Quotes
I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
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What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.
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I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.
