Brock Osweiler Quotes

I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

Brock Osweiler

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Period

• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Fabulous
  • Madonna

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
  • Religious

• To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When we're not filming or promoting then, you know, I live two different lives. So when I'm just in Taylor's life, and I'm just, you know, at home spending time with friends, it's great, it's a totally different life than this 'Twilight' world for sure. But it's amazing; our fans are the most passionate fans in the world!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I always do something that I've never done before.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Done
  • Always
  • Never

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Career
  • Training
  • Week

• I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Care
  • Responsible

• My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Crazy

• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Family
  • Rich
  • Careful

• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Never
  • China
  • Puzzle

• I have no human feelings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Feelings
  • Human

• For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Money
  • Value

• I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

  

  Claude Picasso
  • Up
  • Father

• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Great
  • Women
  • American

• There is no transmigration of

  

  Jane Roberts

• I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

  

  Brock Osweiler