Pierce Brown Quotes

I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

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• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • Same
  • Evolution

• I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anyone

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Body
  • Trends

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Weird
  • Strange
  • Really

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Enthusiasm
  • Group

• Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Design

• I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Comfortable

• This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Career
  • Looking
  • Cow

• I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Community
  • Kind
  • Confidence

• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good

• You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • Drug
  • Celebrity

• Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Kitchen

• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Flower
  • Stormy

• That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Choice
  • Album
  • Outlet

• I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Trust

• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Church
  • Miracle
  • Catholic

• I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

  

  Pierce Brown