Jim Brown Quotes
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
-
For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
-
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
-
All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
-
The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
-
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
-
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
-
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
-
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
-
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
-
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
-
I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
-
There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
-
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
-
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
-
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
-
It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.
-
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
-
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
-
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
