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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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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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'I hope they understand that I really understandThat they don't understand'
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.
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The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
