Brendon Urie Quotes
I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I have this really big face.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
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Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.
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Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.
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«Spain is a great nation and Spaniards very Spanish and much Spanish.»
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don’t like any of them, and I don’t think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).
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Never point at anything beige and call it cool.
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I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
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When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
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I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
