Brian Christian Quotes
Sometimes there’s so much that needs to be said that the literal site disappears, becomes, as in My Dinner with Andre...
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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I loved campaigning for Obama.
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Your character, Apollon Zamp, is marred by a certain paltriness of spirit, a diffused universal distrust which I truly deplore.
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Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.
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How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 Democrat/Republican district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.
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James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.
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I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.
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Sometimes there’s so much that needs to be said that the literal site disappears, becomes, as in My Dinner with Andre...
