Brett Gelman Quotes
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lieAs if in love . . . There was no more hating then,And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.
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Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent is out there and the exciting finishes you have, week in, week out.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
