Jerry Brown Quotes

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Jerry Brown

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• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Church
  • Christian

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Doing
  • Problems

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Great
  • Step

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • American

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • World
  • Work
  • Best

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Finish
  • Human Race
  • Farce

• My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Music
  • Write

• It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • World
  • American