Brigham Young Quotes

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

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• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Listening
  • Years

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • World
  • Fun
  • Days

• I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • American
  • Try
  • Appearance

• Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • People
  • Great
  • Kind

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Fun
  • Die
  • Value

• Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Powerful
  • Honor

• Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Hope

• Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Money
  • Heart

• In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Judge

• I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Brother
  • Accomplishment

• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Integrity

• I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I will speak with a straight tongue.

  

  Chief Joseph

• I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

  

  Andy Rourke The Smiths
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Cancer

• I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Different
  • History

• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Home
  • Computer

• Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Job
  • American
  • Black

• I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.

  

  Bart Scott
  • Money
  • Playing
  • Scholarship

• Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Friend

• It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Young fools
  • Old fools