Brad Pitt Quotes

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Deep
  • Literature
  • Curse

• When all else fails, complicate matters.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Matters
  • Else
  • Complicate

• I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Good
  • Help
  • Crazy

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Embarrassed
  • Hobbies

• I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • School
  • Small

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Just
  • Tried
  • Singles

• You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• 'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • True
  • Stupid

• I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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  • Today
  • Suicide

• The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills … have this … component.

  

  Alfred Korzybski

• Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
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• Despair the twin-born of devotion.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
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• I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Mother

• Hearing "can't" dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone "no" just makes them want it more.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • Hearing
  • Psychological theory
  • Workaround

• I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Home
  • Big
  • Ownership

• I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

  

  Jason Patric
  • Business

• I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.

  Biz Stone
  • People

• When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

  

  Brad Pitt