H. W. Brands Quotes

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• Any team can have a bad century.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Century

• KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Career
  • Cool
  • Rap

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Race

• I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Always
  • Been
  • CIA

• Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Mind
  • King

• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Action
  • Paradise

• Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.

  

  Ariel Garten
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

  

  Dennis L. McKiernan
  • School
  • High
  • Couple

• I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries, or is so much about black people as victims in this country, and black people not taking control of their own lives and their own destinies.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Growth

• Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

  

  Ben Brantley
  • History
  • Team
  • Passion

• Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health

• When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, 'I would accept it,' said Parmenio, 'were I Alexander.' 'And so truly would I,' said Alexander, 'if I were Parmenio.' But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

  

  Plutarch
  • Earth

• It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poverty
  • Soil

• Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • War
  • Capitalists