Brian Azzarello Quotes

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

Brian Azzarello

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• When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Up
  • Best
  • Winning

• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Guy

• I really like children to watch my movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Movies
  • Watch

• In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Time
  • School
  • Win

• I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Yes, I am very prolific.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Prolific

• You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • You
  • Me
  • Inner

• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Courage
  • Being
  • Afraid

• I wish all men were like dogs.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Dogs

• I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Think
  • Film

• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Free
  • Stop

• My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.

  

  Alec Berg
  • School
  • Happy
  • Science

• There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

  

  Lili Simmons
  • World
  • Book
  • Movie

• I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • History

• One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

  

  Ariel Garten
  • Text

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Act
  • Constitution

• To be able to come out of that mess as I did is special. To be able to improve my relations with my dad is special. I'm happy with the way my life's going, the way I'm growing up as a person. Skating has changed me. I've had a lot of chances, and this is my time to shine.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Believe
  • Nihilism

• People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Trying
  • Present

• I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

  

  Brian Azzarello