Brigid Lowry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
-
You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
-
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
-
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
-
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
-
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
-
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
-
I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
-
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
-
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
-
All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
-
Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
-
It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
-
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
-
It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.
-
I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
-
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
-
You can learn to write. But what you write is something that depends on your taste and on your vision or whatever. Also, of course, the music I listened to inspired my idea of music. When people ask me "Where's your inspiration? Where does it come from?" I have no idea. Music is about music. Not about life and love.
-
I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
-
Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
