Jim Brown Quotes

When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do.

Jim Brown

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
  • People
  • Challenged
  • Lots

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

  

  Johnny Galecki

• I believe I was ahead of my time.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Time
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Idea
  • Sanctification

• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Truths
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis

• When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Great
  • Service