Bryan Brown Quotes

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Older

• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Service
  • Grow

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Real
  • May
  • Small

• Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • Men
  • Freedom

• Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Success
  • Story

• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Comfort

• I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, 'How's she losing it? What is she doing?' But it's all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • She
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Hate
  • Training
  • Gay

• I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Protect

• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Successful

• Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Single

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good

• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Tales
  • Thunder

• Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Love
  • True

• My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

  

  Hedda Sterne
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Sublime

• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Justice
  • Competition
  • Internet

• I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

  

  Bryan Brown