Brian Regan Quotes
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.
Quotes to Explore
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
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Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist’s chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to see how quickly they’d combust?
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I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.
