Brian Christian Quotes
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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I love candy!
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment.
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I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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I don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me.
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I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
