Brian Joseph Burton (Danger Mouse) Quotes
Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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I am Providence, and Providence is myself-together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
