Brett Gelman Quotes
I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.
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What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
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I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
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The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
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I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.
