Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

I love that you can just walk into the club and hear Young Jeezy or hear Fetty, and it's on.

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• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Past
  • Passive

• I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Down
  • Tongue

• When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Confidence

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Ideas

• To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Long
  • Art
  • Character

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Three

• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Write
  • Comfortable
  • Paper

• I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • American
  • Words
  • Know

• She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • She
  • House
  • Kind

• I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Kids
  • Better
  • Win

• Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • God
  • Light

• Wouldst have the princely spirit bowed? Whisper only, speak not loud, Mark and leave him in the crowd.Thou need'st not spies nor jailers have; The free will serve thee like the slave, Coward shrinking from the brave.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Free
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • God
  • Thinking

• You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Health care

• He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.

  

  Plutarch
  • Serious

• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  

  Andrew Manis
  • Responsibility
  • Status
  • Blacks

• My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

  

  Lucy Deakins
  • Important
  • Character
  • Strong

• I’m still proudest of The Death of Captain Marvel followed closely by various Dreadstar stories, Warlock, Kid Kosmos Kidnapped, The Thanos Quest and a series next-to-nobody ever read, called Wyrd, the Mystic Warrior...

  

  Jim Starlin
  • Death
  • Warrior

• I love that you can just walk into the club and hear Young Jeezy or hear Fetty, and it's on.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry