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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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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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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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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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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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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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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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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Photography is an accident.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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I've always found when I'm healthy and happy I perform the best, not necessarily when I've done the most training.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
