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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You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
