Brandy Johnson Quotes

Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• I don't like to play the victim.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • America
  • Dislike

• I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • She
  • Play

• I just want to stay professional.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Professional
  • Stay

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • First

• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Father
  • Age

• C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.

  

  Anatole France

• Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Beautiful
  • Fire

• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  

  Andre Breton
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Wise

• The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Political
  • Party
  • Labor

• African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Humanity

• It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Water
  • Environment
  • Air

• My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Helping
  • Protect

• I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Calm
  • Inspire

• Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.

  

  Brandy Johnson
  • Heart
  • Goals
  • Dreams