Brian Koppelman Quotes
Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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I have a pig valve.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
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I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
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I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.
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Let's not look at working hard as a negative; let's look at it as an uplifting opportunity for us to be better.
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When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.
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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
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He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.
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Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
