Brandon Bays Quotes

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Survival

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Labor
  • Intuitive
  • Courting

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Work
  • Home
  • History

• I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fan
  • Discover
  • Statement

• The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Culture

• When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Question
  • Speak

• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Memory
  • Thanks
  • Boredom

• I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Color

• I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

  

  Deborah Ann Woll
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dog

• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.

  

  Alex Stamos
  • Focus

• The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Option

• I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Focus
  • Obvious
  • Seeking