Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Winning

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Life
  • Live

• It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find a church and know the services and feel at home there.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Home
  • Church

• The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

  

  Erez Lieberman Aiden
  • Up
  • English

• You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • English
  • Knows
  • Speak

• Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Alone
  • English
  • Connection

• In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • English