Brian Christian Quotes
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
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We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Existence without essence is very stressful.
