Brad Stone Quotes
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
-
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
-
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
-
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
-
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
-
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
-
I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
-
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
-
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
-
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
-
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
-
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
-
Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
-
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
-
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
-
For me it's always about trying to consistently maintain a fit and body-conscious eating schedule so three days before I'm not like, 'Oh my God - I have a bathing suit shoot I have to do.'
-
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
-
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
-
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
