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.
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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.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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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.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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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.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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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.
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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.
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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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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
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The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
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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.
