Brian Wong Quotes

You are the most powerful force in your life.

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• I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Worry
  • Fame

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Years
  • Doing

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Made
  • U.S.
  • Almost

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Focus

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Father
  • Immigration

• I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Words
  • Control
  • Scary

• My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Brother
  • Hipster

• Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • American
  • Bad

• There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Important
  • Taken

• Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• 'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Life
  • Friends

• You are the most powerful force in your life.

  

  Brian Wong
  • Life
  • Force