Brad Renfro Quotes

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

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• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• And that's the way it is.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Single
  • Data

• We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Quality
  • Best
  • Growth

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Look
  • Own

• It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Going
  • Apple

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Country
  • Man

• Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• 'Tis not for Spring to think on allThe sear and waste of Autumn's fall: -

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Autumn

• ’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • City
  • Sweet

• Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • Writing
  • Mysterious

• Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light
  • Space
  • Perception

• Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Desire

• The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Over
  • August
  • Closer

• Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Book
  • Game
  • Attention

• Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.

  

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Working
  • Movement
  • Groups

• Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

  

  Brad Renfro