Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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I love what I do.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self. It is a harrowing journey, a death to self – the false self – and no one wants to die. But it is the only path to life, to freedom, to peace, to true love. And it begins with silence. We cannot give ourselves in love if we do not know and possess ourselves. This is the great value of silence. It is the pathway to all we truly want.
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It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again.
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
