Brian Christian Quotes
Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I don't like controversy.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.
