Brett Gelman Quotes
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.
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Once you get away and come back, you're ready to go. But knowing it's a fresh start, like a new season; we're taking it one game at a time.
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
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I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.
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I think it's clear we're in damage control now.
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I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.
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Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.
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After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.
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What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
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I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
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I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.
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I always wanted to have another cookie store, ... So 30 years later, we have another cookie store.
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Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
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Every cookie is a sugar cookie. A cookie without sugar is a cracker.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.
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I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.
