Brian Dyson Quotes
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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You're more than another, there could never be another. To make you feel the way you do.Ohh, we just get closer. I'd fall in love all over. Every time I look at you.I don't know where I'd be, without you here with me.Life with you makes perfect sense, my best friend.
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You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!
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These days I just can't seem to say what I mean. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.
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It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
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You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.
