Brent Stirton Quotes
You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
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You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.
