Brian Behlendorf Quotes

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

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• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Business
  • America

• I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Look
  • My Life

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Rude

• I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Running
  • Alone

• When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Trying
  • You
  • Years

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Professional
  • Paris
  • Plant

• I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Favorite
  • Eat
  • Meal

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Dog
  • Saying
  • Legs

• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Moving On

• When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Always
  • Old
  • Everyone

• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Environment

• I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • World
  • Doing

• Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

  

  Dee Rees

• I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

  

  Brian Behlendorf