Brian Masters Quotes

Sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life’s pain.

Brian Masters

• Life
• Pressure
• Benevolent act

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

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• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

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• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

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• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

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• I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

  

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• There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

  

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• In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

  

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• By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

  

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• To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

  

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• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

  

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• 'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

  

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• When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

  

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• Sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life’s pain.

  

  Brian Masters
  • Life
  • Pressure
  • Benevolent act