H. W. Brands Quotes
A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
-
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
-
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
-
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
-
The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
-
When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
-
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
-
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
-
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
-
My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
-
If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
-
Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
-
I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
-
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
-
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
-
I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.
-
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
-
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
-
What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference.
-
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
-
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
-
A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
