Brandon Flowers Quotes
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I find you get out of people what you put into them.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.
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Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
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I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
