Brendan Fraser Quotes

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Brendan Fraser

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• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Power
  • True

• It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Want
  • Government

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Surfing

• Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

  

  Bjork
  • Nature

• While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Memories
  • Survival

• What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • World
  • Help

• We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work

• Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • War
  • Growing

• An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

  

  Katharine Kerr
  • World

• I'm basically a gift-giver.

  

  Christie Hefner

• The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • World
  • Women
  • City

• Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.

  

  David Brock
  • Sorry

• I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Heartfelt

• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Butterfly

• Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Reality

• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Age
  • Bold
  • Aesthetic

• For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Hamlet
  • Village
  • South Vietnam

• I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Time

• I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

  

  David Mazzucchelli
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Eyes

• What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

  

  Brendan Fraser
  • Hamlet