Brian Halligan Quotes
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Faith is the soul's adventure.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.
