Ian Brown Quotes

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

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• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Museum

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

  

  Najib Razak
  • New
  • Tax
  • Australia

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Me
  • Carry

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Perspective
  • Upside Down

• One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Party

• There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Nothing

• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Profound
  • Conflict

• I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Want

• I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Never
  • Mood
  • Drink

• Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Makeup
  • Black-and-white

• Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Science

• I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Nice
  • Comfortable
  • Seems

• When people told the audience that Sam Kinison was good, he was accepted after that.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Accepted

• And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Easy
  • Roll
  • Insults

• I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

  

  Ian Brown