Brian Patten Quotes
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn't think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.
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I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
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Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
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As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.
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I write in order to belong.
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From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.
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There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.
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Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
