Brian Christian Quotes

Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.

Brian Christian

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Believe
  • Man

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

  

  Lactantius
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Spirit

• I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Perception
  • Video

• The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

  

  James Wolk
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

  

  Alice Ripley

• When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • People
  • She

• The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.

  

  Cory Gardner

• If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

  

  James Watkins

• The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Up
  • Together

• The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Guy
  • Fake

• Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

  

  Mark Teixeira

• We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Great
  • Know
  • Community

• Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Door

• All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • People
  • Work
  • Control

• Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Environment
  • Adults
  • Self-Control