Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Trying
  • City

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Always

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

  

  Plato
  • Wealth
  • Excellence
  • Bring

• I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• When I'm in need of a quick meal or party dish, a burger is hands-down my go-to pick! Burgers are easy, fast, and don't even require utensils to eat, making them the perfect get-together main course, tailgating essential, and simple dinner recipe to whip up any night of the week.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • Together
  • Night

• Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Different
  • Together
  • Guy

• You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Together
  • Apart
  • Torn