Zach Braff Quotes

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

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• I know what to do and I go and execute.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Know
  • Go
  • Execute

• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• I don't think I'm a good dancer.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Good
  • Think
  • Dancer

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Because
  • Wear

• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Action
  • Primitive
  • Foresight

• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Responsibility
  • Human
  • Beauty

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Style
  • Her
  • Toughness

• There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • City
  • Taken

• You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Proud

• There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Help
  • Strong

• En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Work
  • Done

• Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Power
  • Action
  • Move

• The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.

  

  William Thompson
  • Adventure
  • Transformation
  • Possibility

• The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Church
  • Values

• I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If I've learned anything, it's to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I'm only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.

  

  Kathy Giusti
  • Live
  • Today
  • Cancer

• I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

  

  Zach Braff