Brooke Elliott Quotes

I need to learn to be more assertive.

Brooke Elliott

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• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Home

• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Time
  • Credit

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Long
  • Family

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Know
  • Me
  • Growth

• Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Change
  • Care
  • Take Care

• How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Security
  • Grow
  • Debt

• I always love to come to Austin.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Love
  • Always
  • Austin

• But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?

  

  Karl Marx

• Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Knowledge

• My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Mother
  • Black
  • Law

• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

  

  Alfred Adler
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Psychology

• The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• What is the most significant conversation you have every day?” People would respond piously, “Your conversation with God, of course.” “No,” Lewis would reply. “It’s the conversation you have with yourself before you speak to God, because in that conversation with yourself, you decide whether you are going to be honest and authentic with God, or whether you are going to meet God with a false face, a mask, an act, a pretense.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • God
  • Conversation

• We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote. I never try to politicize the issue.

  

  David Titley
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Issues

• I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

  

  David Petraeus

• I need to learn to be more assertive.

  

  Brooke Elliott