Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
D. B. Weiss -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
Ramez Naam -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
Hannibal Buress -
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
Dakota Fanning -
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
Adam McKay
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock -
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
Bailee Madison -
I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
Uday Kiran -
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
Nancy Pickard
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Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no 'good guns'. There are no 'bad guns'. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.
Charlton Heston -
As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move - it's a bunch of drawings of movement.
Chuck Jones -
I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
Curtis Stone -
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
Brin-Jonathan Butler