Chris Brogan Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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I wanted to write about the things that I love.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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I'm not mean.
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Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
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I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
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I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.
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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off...
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
