Jim Brown Quotes

I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• I make work not to give answers but to question things.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • Question
  • Give

• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Proud
  • Right
  • Part

• We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Pretty
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Changes
  • Possible
  • Own

• I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Food
  • Horse
  • Meat

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

  

  John Muir
  • Great
  • God
  • America

• People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • People
  • Past

• When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Life
  • Career
  • Hair

• I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Professional
  • Basketball