Alton Brown Quotes

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

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• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
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• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
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• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
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• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
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• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

  

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• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

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• I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

  

  Barry McGee
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• I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

  

  Otis Blackwell
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• Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

  

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• I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

  

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• Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
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• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

  

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