Brian Swimme Quotes
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
Quotes to Explore
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.
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You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.
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All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
