Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

Anthony Venn-Brown

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• Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Deep
  • I Love You

• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Body
  • Voice

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Action
  • Religion

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Style

• I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Healthy
  • I Can

• If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Know
  • Play
  • Tennis

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Way
  • Harmony
  • Stravinsky

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Music
  • House
  • Quality

• Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

  

  Charles Rosin
  • Choices
  • Golf
  • Games

• Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

  

  Carol Kent
  • Hope
  • Choices
  • Journey

• My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Choices
  • Morality
  • Orientation