Brian J. White Quotes

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Brian J. White

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• Nobody wants to give up good players.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Give

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• You keep learning all the time.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Time
  • You
  • Learning

• It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Present

• In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Gay

• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Warm

• There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Nothing
  • Harder
  • Than

• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Humor
  • Numbers

• For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Way
  • Budget

• I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Know
  • Part
  • Conscious

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • Think
  • Couple

• The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Model
  • Win

• I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Inspiration

• My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Mother
  • Song
  • Boy

• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Gratitude
  • Duty
  • Philosophical

• I was born with this talent, so I've just worked hard, and now it's gone well for me. But I'm not going to lie - I didn't expect to be top of the Premier League.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Talent
  • Expect
  • Top

• My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

  

  Brian J. White