Bryson Tiller Quotes

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.

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• I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• I'm a fast writer.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Writer
  • Fast

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Style

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• These types of events are Israel’s nightmare, not because they are violent, but precisely because they are not.

  

  Yousef Munayyer

• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

  

  Edward Albee
  • People
  • Reality

• Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'

  

  Lenny Bruce

• Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Liar

• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Mom

• I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece - more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Why
  • Book
  • Reading

• Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

  

  Chet Atkins
  • People

• Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Life
  • Business
  • Control

• Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Choices
  • Lucky
  • Kings

• All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.

  

  John Constable
  • Mind
  • Cold

• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Pain
  • Punctuation

• I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.

  

  Bryson Tiller