Brett Morgen Quotes

You have Kurt Cobain, and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

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• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Say
  • Feet
  • Six

• There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Family
  • Single
  • More

• I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writing
  • Politics
  • Sacrifice

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
  • Period

• Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • Great
  • High

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

  Alice James
  • Perfect
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • God
  • America
  • Beautiful

• Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Dog
  • Killing
  • Bite

• Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Mean
  • Interest
  • Ambition

• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Indifferent
  • Politeness
  • Good Friends

• The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

  

  William James
  • Desire
  • Friendship
  • Hunger

• If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Disappear
  • Wins
  • Britain

• I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • I Think
  • Record
  • Recognize

• The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

  

  John Piper
  • Jesus
  • Stronger
  • Bloodline

• Gotta get through my soul, but they won't budge, mud, drug me victim. The blood in me runnin' my mental, the thug in me, stuck in me.

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • Soul
  • Drug
  • Victim

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• You have Kurt Cobain, and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Experiences
  • Kurt Cobain