Brian Regan Quotes
I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
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The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.
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I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.
