Nathaniel Branden Quotes

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

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• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Different
  • Two

• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Problem
  • Fall
  • Air

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Peace
  • Civilization

• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

  Rain
  • Want
  • Rest
  • Movies

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• I was tested against the best.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Against
  • Tested

• Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

  

  Herodotus
  • Heroes
  • Countries
  • Law Of Nature

• Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Media
  • Opportunities

• George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Father
  • President
  • Dinner

• I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Actor
  • Wanting
  • Approval

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step