Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there's not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  

  Rachel True
  • Women
  • Beginning
  • Editing

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Miracle
  • Extraordinary

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • Art
  • Space

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Spirit

• You don’t get to be the best unless you dedicate yourself to what you are doing

  

  Hafthor Bjornsson
  • Best
  • Yourself
  • Dedicate

• As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Money

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there's not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Country
  • Power
  • College