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 am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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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 actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
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Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
