Brian Solis Quotes
To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.
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There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
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I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.
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My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
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I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
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There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
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When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.
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I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.
