Gerald Brooks Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
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It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.
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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.
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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
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The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.
