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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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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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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There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
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We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there, But can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side!
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
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The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
