Brandon Flowers Quotes
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
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The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.
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A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
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If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.
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I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
