Marlon Brando Quotes

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

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• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• Pave your own path and be fearless.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Path
  • Own
  • Fearless

• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Me
  • Take
  • Jail

• I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Song
  • Sick
  • Stand

• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Together

• 'Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Sex
  • Marijuana

• That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Good
  • Question
  • Greek

• From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• I guess I've always had a similar-looking face.

  

  Peter Billingsley

• I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Important
  • Exercise
  • Unimportant

• Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

  

  Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Society
  • Progress

• Cycling is a part of my life; it always has been, and I will always continue to cycle. I won't be doing it on the world stage, doing it competitively, but I'll still be out on the weekend with the masses riding around Richmond Park in my Team Sky jersey or whatever. I just love it.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Life
  • World
  • Team

• Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Violence
  • Trauma

• I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Writer
  • Fantasy
  • Studied

• You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

  

  Marlon Brando