Brian McGinn Quotes
The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
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Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
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The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
