George Brett Quotes

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

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• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Name

• It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Special

• Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Thinking
  • New York
  • Everyone

• That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Different
  • Control
  • Reading

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Good
  • Society
  • Talent

• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Working

• L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.

  

  Alexis Carrel

• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Done
  • Today
  • Integrity

• Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Art

• If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • World
  • Song
  • Hurt

• Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Live
  • Night
  • Growing

• I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Time
  • Player

• What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

  

  Albrecht Durer

• When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Painting
  • Italian

• Not many people know 'Hellblazer.'

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • People

• I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Man
  • Messing

• Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Money

• If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

  

  George Brett