Brian Swimme Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?
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Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
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The current status quo works against the interests of all. The time has come to move forward all together, leaving behind restrictions and confrontation.
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
