Rick Bragg Quotes

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• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Demands

• If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• 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

• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Time
  • Food
  • Talk

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• We all have the right to comment about each other.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Right
  • Other
  • Comment

• OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Crazy
  • Very
  • WIld

• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Fire

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

  

  Manny Coto
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Want

• My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Know

• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Things
  • Really

• The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Value
  • Thought

• My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Remarkable

• I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Personality
  • Pride
  • First

• Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Career
  • Route
  • Sing Songs

• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Stupid
  • Characteristic

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• But how many senators, representatives, and justices are on our currency, have monuments on the National Mall, have their names on towns, cities, counties, states, or figure prominently in Hollywood movies, television, or cable series? Congress and the Supreme Court can be in or out of session. The president is the Energizer Bunny™ of the American government.

  

  Aaron David Miller
  • Government
  • Names
  • Monuments

• It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Looks
  • Pool
  • Resources

• It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

  

  Rick Bragg
  • Someone
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  • Unusual