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

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Prime Minister

• 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
  • Style
  • Best

• A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Found

• '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

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Friend

• 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

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Up
  • Kinds

• Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

  

  Georgi Plekhanov
  • Development
  • Conflict
  • Efforts

• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Universe
  • Design
  • Intelligent

• I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Up

• Probably the majority of those things that people possess may be legal or sourced sustainably, but there are other things that people just don't realize. You have to really watch out for this, particularly when you are traveling or buying things off the internet.

  

  Allen Crawford
  • Things
  • Possess
  • Buying

• 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