Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
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• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
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• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

  

  Bo Sanchez
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• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
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• You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't capture it, it's rare to get that moment again.

  

  Larry Charles
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• When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

  

  Kofi Annan
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• I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

  

  Larry Doby
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• People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
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