Bernie Brillstein Quotes

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

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• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Work
  • Pool

• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Things
  • Favorite
  • Wheel

• I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Step

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Experience
  • Literature
  • Bible

• I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • School
  • High
  • Learning

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Thought
  • Vote

• Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,Such as fating us to spend the first part of our livesbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last partbeing embarrassed by our childer.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Parents

• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name?Your way and my way seem to be one and the same, child.Mamma don't understand it.She wants to know where I've been.I'd have to be some kind of natural born foolTo want to pass that way again.But I could feel itOn a country road.

  

  James Taylor
  • Country
  • She
  • Road

• Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

  

  Edward Luck
  • Proud

• I am wholesome.

  

  Andrea Corr

• The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

  

  Meaghan Rath
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Christmas

• Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Crazy

• Prince Bismarck once said that one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork; another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Prince
  • German

• 'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for years and years, I was always like, 'Let's play this song!' But I'll tell you something: I started working on that song almost from the very first time I joined the band.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Band
  • Justice

• Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • Art
  • Notes
  • Outcomes