Brian Christian Quotes

So explore when you will have time to use the resulting knowledge, exploit when you’re ready to cash in.

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • May
  • Saying

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Like
  • Living
  • Tokyo

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movies
  • About
  • Electrical

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • School
  • Problem
  • President

• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  

  Tacitus
  • Crime
  • Blessing
  • Initiative

• Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g - what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma - to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good

• Much there is I can stand, and most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a god commands it. Only a few I find as repugnant as snakes and poison - These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and †.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God

• The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Done

• I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Thinking
  • Help

• I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

  

  Albert Camus
  • May

• I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Pretty
  • Connection

• Perhaps there's a lot of quality television that's not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.

  

  Amanda Warren
  • Time
  • May
  • Reality

• Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • Control
  • Smile
  • Sorry

• Character is our destiny.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Character
  • Destiny

• We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.

  

  Mohandas Dewese

• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  

  Little Richard
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Like

• So explore when you will have time to use the resulting knowledge, exploit when you’re ready to cash in.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Resulting knowledge
  • Cash in