Georg Brandes Quotes

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Georg Brandes

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• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Game
  • Way
  • Me

• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Change
  • Satisfied
  • Betray

• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Mom
  • Lucky

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Day

• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Year
  • Loyalty
  • Oath

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Important
  • Political
  • Law

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • School
  • Job
  • Leaving

• I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Inspiration
  • Broken

• We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

  

  Debbie Macomber
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Romance

• I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Inspiration
  • Write
  • Sick

• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Inspiration
  • Studies