Brian Joseph Burton (Danger Mouse) Quotes
I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.
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It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
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It was a great ceremony. The rings are great. It was a memorable day, up until the game started. Then we just didn't play very well today. All of us.
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
