Brian Christian Quotes

One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Cats

• 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

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

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

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Growing
  • City
  • Building

• I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Different
  • Heart

• I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Love
  • Want
  • Wonder

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

  

  Jon Lovitz
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Stop

• We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Business
  • Want

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that it's been put out there, that it's something a bit different, something creative.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Chief goals
  • Mental labor