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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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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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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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
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I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.
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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.
