Brownie McGhee Quotes

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

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• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Career
  • Interesting

• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Job
  • True

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Rest

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Right

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Start

• I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Mean
  • Idea
  • Feminine

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Hated

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

  

  Christiaan Barnard
  • Life
  • Suffering

• I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Wonder
  • Boycott
  • Sanctions

• Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Age

• It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

  

  Jason Patric
  • Help
  • Interesting

• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

  

  Brownie McGhee