Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Why
  • History
  • Architecture

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Country
  • Why
  • Teach

• I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

  

  John W. Thompson
  • Country
  • Balance

• When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Why
  • Parents