Brian J. White Quotes

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

Brian J. White

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Black
  • Fashion
  • Red

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There is always safety in valor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always
  • Safety
  • Valor

• The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Great
  • Why
  • Mother

• The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Baby

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Age
  • Single
  • Risk

• As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom