Gerald Brooks Quotes

When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.

Gerald Brooks

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• I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Country
  • America
  • New

• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • School
  • Friends
  • Song

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Part

• Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Street
  • Trees
  • Other

• I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Me
  • Best

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Opinion

• I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Character
  • Age
  • Woman

• My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Family
  • Weird

• I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Light
  • Practice
  • Inner Beauty

• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Writing
  • Trade
  • Journalism

• I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Body

• When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.

  

  Gerald Brooks
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Leader