Brian Christian Quotes

Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.

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• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Comedy

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Cinema

• I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • President
  • Will
  • Nation

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Important

• The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. 'You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,' Hamin told him. Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Team

• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Silence

• Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • World
  • Family

• I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Water

• If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Be Happy
  • Camper
  • Hook Up

• When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Success
  • Words
  • Satisfaction

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.

  

  Brian Christian
  • World
  • Structure
  • Social relationships