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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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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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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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
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The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
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I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
