Drew Brees Quotes

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Drew Brees

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• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Story
  • Forgotten

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Power
  • Support
  • Powerful

• Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thought
  • Young
  • Loved

• Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Different
  • Me
  • Look

• I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

  

  Laura Riding
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Nature

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Heart
  • Broken

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.

  

  Karl Jaspers

• You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Night
  • Energy
  • Light

• Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Good
  • Song

• If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • Work

• It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

  

  Jerome Powell

• My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Good
  • Money

• And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.

  

  Brian Fallon

• Well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • God
  • Energy
  • Strange

• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Heart
  • High
  • Health

• I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

  

  Drew Brees