Brad Feld Quotes
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.
Quotes to Explore
-
Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
-
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
-
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
-
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
-
I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
-
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
-
I was tested against the best.
-
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
-
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
-
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
-
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
-
Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
-
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
-
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
-
There should be no censorship of mail.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
-
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
-
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
-
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
-
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
-
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
-
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
-
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.
