David R. Brower Quotes

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Crazy

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Black

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Style
  • King

• I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Money
  • Know

• I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • About
  • Nine
  • Collecting

• We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Myself
  • Unique

• I'm certainly not a workaholic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Certainly
  • Workaholic

• I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Home
  • Book

• With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• ...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

  

  R.D. Blackmore
  • Dream

• The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

  

  David R. Brower
  • People
  • Door