Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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• Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Responsibility
  • Find
  • Place

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Yourself

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Law
  • Marriage

• First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • America
  • Night
  • Acting

• When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.

  

  Banks
  • Think
  • Makeup
  • Just

• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Small
  • Sex

• We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brands

• I'm not a gadget freak.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Freak
  • Gadget

• The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Win

• Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Kids
  • American
  • Fantasy

• Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Art
  • Me
  • Attention

• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

  

  Edward Johnson, III
  • Leadership

• The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

  

  John Grant
  • Profound

• Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Violence
  • Africa
  • Monopoly

• In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley