Keith Braithwaite Quotes
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
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I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
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In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.
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I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.
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I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
