Brian Ulrich Quotes
What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.
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Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
