Bryant H. McGill Quotes
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.Bryant H. McGill
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus -
I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
Tadashi Shoji -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Patrick Swayze -
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
Lake Bell
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin -
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel -
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz -
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
Iris DeMent -
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
Jackson Browne -
In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
Yami Gautam -
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
Taryn Simon -
When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.
Yuna -
When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
J. R. Smith
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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
Karamo Brown -
Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.
David Droga -
In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.
Gabrielle Dennis -
I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
Indira Gandhi -
If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
Lara Spencer -
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill