Brian McDermott Quotes

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Brian McDermott

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Myself

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Style
  • Quality
  • Try

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Life
  • Up
  • Friends

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Boxing

• I find celebrity really scary.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Find
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'

  

  Yance Ford
  • Bad
  • Night

• I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Dog
  • Pizza

• Great dreams require great courage.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

  

  Brian McDermott
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember