Alan Brien quotes
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“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
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“When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.”
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“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
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“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.”
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“You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.”
-- Alan Brien
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
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“Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”
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“I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.”
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