Brooke Burke Quotes

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

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• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • Man
  • Politics

• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Earth
  • Hand
  • Progress

• We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Opportunities
  • Colleagues

• You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • You
  • Film
  • Say

• They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Political
  • Film
  • Places

• I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Wood
  • Carpenter
  • Ramps

• One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Imagination

• Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Gentleman

• I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Up
  • Believe

• Ah! what is human life?How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;Too subtle is the movement to be seen;Yet soon the hour is up-and we are gone.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Up
  • Moving

• On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Night
  • Prayer

• Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Walking

• There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Important
  • Democracy

• Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Free
  • Moments
  • Childhood

• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • World
  • Parents

• Mama and Papa are more to blame for delinquency than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mama

• I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

  

  Brooke Burke