Brendan Myers Quotes

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.

Brendan Myers

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You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Jess Weixler

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Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

John Buchanan Robinson

PeoplePriceSometimesWantOutBuy

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Jennifer Carpenter

LifePersonalActorKeepSacred

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmore

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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Robert Lloyd

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I think in the history of basketball, people get hired and people get fired, but the main thing is people enjoy their careers and enjoy that they have jobs, so you really have to stay positive about everything.

Metta World Peace

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I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Tony Goldwyn

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Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Roland Gift

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When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.

Mary Szybist

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I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.

Pierre Coffin

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I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker

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