Brian Reitzell Quotes

One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

  

  Yuna
  • Free
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  • Choice

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Work
  • Power
  • Political

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
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• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Hope
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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
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• Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Help
  • Government
  • Rule

• There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stereotypes

• The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. 'That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?'

  

  John Updike
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  • God
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• Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Time
  • Past

• On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Life
  • Support
  • Been

• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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  • School

• One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.

  

  Brian Reitzell
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