Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Competition

• Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Platform
  • Infrastructure

• There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • U.S.
  • Self-Love
  • Ads

• I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mind
  • Bridge

• We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Enemy

• 17) No technique works if it isn't used.

  

  Larry Niven

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity

• Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Fall
  • Lonely

• It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • People
  • Advice

• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Death
  • Sleep

• If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments if one suffices.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Means
  • Suffices

• I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • People
  • History

• I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end of the play before jumping into a taxi outside the theater and catching the train home.

  

  Joan Hickson
  • Home

• For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Life
  • Different
  • Architecture

• We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon