Ed Brubaker Quotes

I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

Ed Brubaker

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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Control
  • Over
  • Screen

• I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Control

• The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Control

• Faith is cold as ice.Why are little ones born only to sufferfor the want of immunity, or a bowl of rice?Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent childrenif there's some immortal power to control the dice? - Roll The Bones (1991)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Why
  • Power
  • Faith

• The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Up
  • Children
  • Art

• Cooking puts me at ease; it gives me control over what's happening, and I know that the finished product is gonna be good, so I'm gonna be satisfied. That's kind of how I keep myself grounded.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Good
  • Control
  • Cooking

• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Control
  • Growth

• The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Control
  • Gun

• Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Real
  • She
  • Man

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Moment

• The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Control
  • Reactions
  • Butterflies