Brad Listi Quotes
People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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People travel north from Barcelona, not south.
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As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.
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People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.