Jonathan Brown Quotes

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

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• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

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• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

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• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

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• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

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• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

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• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  

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• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

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• When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

  

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• Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

  

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• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  

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• The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

  

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• I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

  

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• I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

  

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• This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.

  

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• Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.

  

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• My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

  

  Jonathan Brown
  • Wife
  • Environment