Brian Christian Quotes
So explore when you will have time to use the resulting knowledge, exploit when you’re ready to cash in.
Quotes to Explore
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g - what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma - to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.
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The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.
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It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
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A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.
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NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
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I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?
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I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.
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De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, 'even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.'
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I think there's a kind of xenophobic frenzy on talk radio, on cable television, from (CNN's) Lou Dobbs to some of the shows on Fox (News).
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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
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So explore when you will have time to use the resulting knowledge, exploit when you’re ready to cash in.
