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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I am myself of a mixed background.
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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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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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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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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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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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We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.
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Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple - sometimes naive. Understand, or not?
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
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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.
