Brian Lindstrom Quotes
One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Be who you are and be that well.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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I can't die but once.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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Quis leget haec?
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like planned out.
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We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.
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One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.
