Brendan I. Koerner Quotes
You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
Quotes to Explore
-
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
-
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
-
If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
-
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
-
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
-
I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
-
As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
-
There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
-
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
-
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
-
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
-
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
-
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
-
Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
-
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
-
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
-
Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.
-
I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day!
-
I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.
-
I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.
-
You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
