Bran Ferren Quotes
It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
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I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'
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That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.
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I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
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In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.
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In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.
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It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
