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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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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I love what I do.
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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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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
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As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
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If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
