Andy Behrman Quotes
My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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People get comfortable with technologies.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
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My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
