Brian Greene Quotes

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • People
  • Day
  • Band

• I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • American
  • Political
  • Treat

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Drug
  • Hallucinogenics

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • Simple
  • Winning
  • Human

• There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Brother
  • Daughter
  • Books

• If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Thug

• When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Parents

• Were we positive, eager, real - alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Real
  • Positive

• The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Life
  • Real
  • Question