David Brudnoy Quotes

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

David Brudnoy

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Office

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Time
  • End

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Business

• Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Long
  • Books

• You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • People
  • Smart
  • Looks

• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Die

• There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Lack

• People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

  

  David Brudnoy
  • People
  • Hope
  • Resilience