Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Political
  • Law

• I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Love

• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Best
  • Marriage
  • Brother

• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Said
  • Stock

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • War
  • Desire
  • Circumstances

• Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Passion
  • Sports

• I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Hope
  • Slavery
  • Will

• The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Great
  • Real

• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Organization
  • White

• My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Son
  • Walking

• Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

  

  Frank Bruno
  • Fun
  • Boxing

• Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Boxing