Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown) Quotes

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

Sterling K. Brown

• Life
• Perspective
• Lows
• Highs

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• 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Bird
  • Wings

• Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Attention
  • Difficult

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Heroes
  • Abstract

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Movie

• There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Passion

• Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Universe
  • Taken
  • Scary

• Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

  

  E. B. White
  • Cleaning

• To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Why
  • Character
  • Understanding

• I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me. I liked the way he kept his right foot forward, being a left-handed hitter, and his left foot back. That gave him more body and shoulder power than the average hitter has.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Power
  • Study

• I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • People
  • Up
  • Serious

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

  

  Sterling K. Brown
  • Life
  • Perspective
  • Lows