Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.Brin-Jonathan Butler
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold -
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor -
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head -
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil Jose -
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
Vernon Jordan -
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia -
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
Gary Sinise -
Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
Sam Worthington -
I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
Hansika Motwani -
We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
Abigail Johnson
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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
Liam Neeson -
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.
Laurie Holden -
I love queers as much as the next guy, I just don't think I should have to sit beside them on public transport.
Zach Braff -
The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.
Trey Songz -
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
Brin-Jonathan Butler