Andre Brie Quotes

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

Andre Brie

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• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Show
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Science
  • Where

• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Competition

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Religion

• I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Game
  • Know
  • Angry

• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Political
  • Vote
  • Become

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Most
  • Democrats

• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Work
  • Different
  • Why

• Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Skinny

• Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• And if you’re just operating by habit, then you’re not really living.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Habit

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• All of our presidents come into office looking so vigorous ... They grow grayer and grayer, and by the time they leave, they’re as white as the building they live in ... I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Presidents
  • Vigorous
  • Grayer

• One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Fate
  • Masters
  • Politicians

• Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

  

  Andre Brie
  • Politicians
  • Computers
  • Calculating