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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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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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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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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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.
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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.
