Brendon Small Quotes
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
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Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
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When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP - there was a liberal wing back then - into his campaign.
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I want to do the best and be the best at what I do.
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Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
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When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
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Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.
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I'd rather die than go to heaven.
