Brian Kenny Quotes
There's no there. That elusive there with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you...
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
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I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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In the dark, I like to read his mind But I'm frightened of the things I might find.
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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
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Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.
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There's no there. That elusive there with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you...
