Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown) Quotes

Every character I play is me.

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Free
  • Goals
  • Conflict

• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Unknown
  • Flesh
  • Surface

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Achieve
  • Peaceful

• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Add

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Different
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Away

• Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Place
  • Demands
  • Flag

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Look

• The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.

  

  Frankie Muniz
  • May
  • Weird
  • Liar

• When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Day
  • Values
  • Diversity

• Every character I play is me.

  

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