Brian J. Smith Quotes

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

Brian J. Smith

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• This is a strange game.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Game
  • Strange

• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Crazy
  • Never
  • Too Much

• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Battle
  • Goddess

• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Love
  • Feel

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • Integrity
  • Clarity

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Famous
  • Really

• I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Working
  • Now
  • Unknown

• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Political

• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Technology
  • Quality

• I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • World
  • Picture
  • Physics

• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Parents
  • Blessed
  • Reflect

• I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Carl Forti
  • People
  • Change
  • Peace

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • People
  • Society
  • Space

• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  

  Plutarch
  • Shoes

• I moved to San Francisco to work at Apple's Cupertino office in the summer of 2006, then stayed on remotely in a part-time job back in Austin. It was an internship with iTunes. I helped them launch new features as well as new marketing programs. I also helped program the iTunes Store every week, working on which artists and albums got featured.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• You dream love like it’s some shitty little motel - you check in and you check out like hell. Well, in case you couldn’t tell I ain’t your old guitar that you leave out in the back of your car that you never play, but you say that you’re gonna play…

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Hell

• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Reason
  • Practice
  • Theory

• Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

  

  Brian J. Smith