Alton Brown Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
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There are a lot of actors that are insanely talented, so I don't say who my favorite is anymore.
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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
