Brendan I. Koerner Quotes

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • May
  • Think

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Tattoos

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Forever
  • Fact
  • Sport

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Interested

• I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Now
  • Little
  • Broadway

• The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Death
  • United States
  • Abortion

• I know how I shop and how I am inspired to buy things, and the majority of it is from Instagram. I look at people like Yasmin Sewell and Leandra Medine from the Man Repeller, as well as the countless models that have really cool street style, for inspiration all the time.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Style
  • Inspired
  • Models

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Life
  • Country
  • Lying

• According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Death
  • Inspired
  • Fool