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 first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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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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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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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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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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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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The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.
