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BRADY ANDERSON
I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. 
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Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. 
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The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer... 
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. 
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th... 
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except... 
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. 
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing. 
The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su... 
I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,... 
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th... 
The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea... 
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo... 
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want. 
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio... 
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... 
I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas... 
I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex... 
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ... 
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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of... 
I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I... 
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra... 
Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate... 
Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ... 
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ... 
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te... 
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d... 
I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes. 
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ... 
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#... 
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim... 
There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr... 
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b... 
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. 
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. 
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... 
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers... 
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l... 
Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going... 
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Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are... 
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. 
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. 
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Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul... 
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