Brom (Gerald Brom) Quotes
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
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If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.
