Brian Moore Quotes

And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

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• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • War
  • Talk
  • Negotiation

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Think
  • Song
  • Me

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• I come from a poor family.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Family
  • Poor
  • Come

• If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Universe

• It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Independent
  • Financial
  • Type

• When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Happy
  • Bear
  • Exchange

• My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Age
  • Today
  • Step

• I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Government
  • Election

• 'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth
  • History
  • Fire

• I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Why

• Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Age

• 'If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.'

  

  Jack Layton
  • Long
  • Country
  • Political

• There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • People

• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Style

• In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

  

  Jean Arp

• They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Music

• And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

  

  Brian Moore