Brian Morton Quotes
The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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Your anger is a gift.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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The media simply does not understand Econ 101.
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Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
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I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.
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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
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I've done it all.
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The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
