Ray Brown Quotes
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
-
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
-
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
-
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
-
I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
-
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
-
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
-
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
-
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
-
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
-
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
-
They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
-
If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
-
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
-
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
-
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
-
The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
-
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
-
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
-
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
-
Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.
-
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!''
-
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.
-
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
