Alton Brown Quotes
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.
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God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.
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Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
