William C. Brown Quotes
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
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If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
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I didn't even go to graduation.
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We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
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There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
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The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
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From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.
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In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
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A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out saying something political or whatever, then it becomes about that view.
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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
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All art is political, all art is a martial one.
