Gerald Brenan Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.
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All I've ever wanted is to be normal.
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I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
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We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good,
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It's very difficult to do, especially when you get up in age, to go back out every single day with the same intensity.
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Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
