Brian Harvey Quotes

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Never
  • Eternity
  • Studying

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Something
  • Abundance
  • Tune

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Human

• I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • You
  • Like
  • Imagine

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Favorite

• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Want
  • Never
  • Size

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Simplicity

• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superman.'

  

  David Bowie
  • Superman

• By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • Time

• People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Adventure
  • Dancing
  • Expectation

• I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Proud

• I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

  

  Brian Harvey