Brian Huskey Quotes

I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

Brian Huskey

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Write

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Party
  • King

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Know
  • Person
  • Open

• Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • She
  • Man
  • Wife

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Edge

• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

  

  Curly Howard
  • Cooking

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Work
  • Prison
  • General

• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Action
  • Wish
  • Church

• I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • Think
  • Matter

• I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

  

  Brian Huskey
  • Action
  • Hero
  • Management