Brooke Nevin Quotes

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

Brooke Nevin

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Know

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Service
  • Talk

• I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Hate
  • Baby

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Hardest
  • Overcome

• The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Serious
  • Silly

• Twelve thousand in the convention Believed through the voice of John. They worship, they deserve a portion, In heaven they will not be angry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Heaven
  • Angry

• The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World

• 'Look at my dick.'

  

  Kevin Smith

• I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Up
  • Sleep

• What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good
  • Great
  • Father

• I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

  

  Mary Lasker
  • Heart
  • Cancer

• TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

  

  David Walliams
  • Power
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Learning
  • Blessings
  • Increase

• It is better to be good than to be original.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Good
  • Originals
  • Be Good

• I don't care if I play on the wing or in the middle. There is no difference.

  

  Alexis Sanchez
  • Play
  • Middle
  • Wing

• I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

  

  Brooke Nevin