Douglas Brunt Quotes

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • Past
  • Poverty

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Understand

• I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Success
  • Famous
  • Talent

• Lunch is for wimps.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Lunch
  • Wimps

• Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Find
  • Partner

• I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Family
  • Money
  • Same

• Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Fall
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Beginning

• When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fish

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sad
  • Information
  • Thing

• We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Believe
  • True
  • Nature

• Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Night
  • Memories
  • Rose

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I come across one thing I do and I want to study that in college. I love history, I love science, I love art, I love grammar, I love literature!

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • Art
  • History
  • Study

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Music
  • Education
  • Director

• Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

  

  Douglas Brunt