Brian Perkins Quotes

You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Travel
  • Cold
  • Really

• I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Think

• I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Intelligence

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Never

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Understanding
  • Preparation
  • Journalism

• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  

  Sallust
  • Identity
  • Friendship
  • Likes

• Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Political

• I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • World
  • Work
  • Family

• 'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Hometown