Alton Brown Quotes
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'
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A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
