Brian McKnight Quotes
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!
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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
