Brian Lindstrom Quotes
I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
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I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.
