Brian Christian Quotes
One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I like things simple.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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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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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It's a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
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One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
