Brett Gelman Quotes
What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.
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To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.
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Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
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Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.
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There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child.
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You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
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What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.
