Alton Brown Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
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They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
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Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.
