Brian Joseph Burton (Danger Mouse) Quotes
What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I lost my confidence.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.
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I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend.
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What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
