Brian Christian Quotes
Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. 'You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,' Hamin told him. Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
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Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.
