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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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 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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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
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One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
