Brad Blanton Quotes

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

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• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Strong
  • Commitment
  • Florida

• If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • May
  • Bad
  • Think

• I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Talent
  • Class

• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stand

• It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Find

• Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thinking
  • Fear
  • Action

• The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value

• It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Dream

• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • Horse

• People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Nasty

• A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• 'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Perspective
  • Plant

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Choices

• 'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

  

  Ellen Forney
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Effort

• My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8

  

  Ze Frank
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Hate

• George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Writing
  • Moral

• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Alternative