Brian Christian Quotes
One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
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I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
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My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.
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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.
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Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
