Edgar S. Brightman Quotes
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
