Brandon Mull Quotes
Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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I regret all of my books.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.
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I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.
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Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
