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

• 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 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

• If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• 'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I get very, very little sleep.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Sleep

• When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.

  

  Alexander Gould

• Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Home

• My daughters made me stop wearing sweats to run errands.

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Stop

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

  

  Brock Osweiler