Jim Brown Quotes

The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Help
  • Hurt

• I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Problem
  • Days
  • Spend

• There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Home
  • Problem
  • Same

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

  

  Mark O'Donnell
  • Character
  • Parents

• The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

  

  Frank Oz
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • People
  • Christian
  • Christianity

• I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Never Forget

• Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Important
  • Science
  • Understanding

• The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Character