H. W. Brands Quotes

Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

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• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
  • Meat

• I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Comedy

• When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Feel
  • Diversity
  • Annoyed

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Health
  • Too Much

• I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

  

  Imelda May
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Walking

• If you're going to America, bring your own food.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • America
  • You
  • Food

• In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Goddess

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Kitchen

• In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • People
  • Mind

• There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag. And they put Soy Milk in with my Moo-Cow fuck milk, and it doesn't belong there, because we all know there's no such thing as Soy milk 'cause there's no soy titty, is there?

  

  Lewis Black

• The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Design

• I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Success

• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.

  

  David Milch

• His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • She
  • Fun
  • Words

• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nature
  • Military
  • Horse

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Eyes
  • Gen. Scott
  • Staff officers