Brian Thompson Quotes

The biggest thing is helping other people, we've got the opportunity to do it.

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• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• I have no regrets. I've got my health.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Health
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Want
  • You
  • Matter

• There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Government
  • Tax

• I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Stage
  • Performer

• I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Think
  • Always
  • Theatre

• The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • World
  • Culture

• The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Fall
  • Fly

• I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Time
  • Hope

• I do not believe on giving amnesty.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • Believe
  • Giving

• On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • School
  • Education
  • English

• Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

  

  Marsilio Ficino
  • Freedom

• The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

  

  Bill Walton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Good

• What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.

  

  Craig Mello
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• The biggest thing is helping other people, we've got the opportunity to do it.

  

  Brian Thompson
  • People
  • Opportunity