Brian Christian Quotes
But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
Quotes to Explore
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
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You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.
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It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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One thing that we've been working on since the beginning of the year is being able to finish on the break as far as making the right play, if it's a finish or making the next pass, i feel like we're doing a good job with that.
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I wrote a paper in school on William Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.
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But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
