Brandon Stansell Quotes
Of all the things that make up what was home It’s funny how they make me feel alone
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
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Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?-diversity is the word.
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Of all the things that make up what was home It’s funny how they make me feel alone
