Alan Brien Quotes

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

Alan Brien

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Baby
  • Healthy

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Person

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Man
  • Chance

• The only weights I lift are my dogs.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Fitness
  • Dogs
  • Lift

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• Quality is pride of workmanship.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Pride

• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Friend
  • Friendships

• I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Great
  • Support
  • Running

• I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Music
  • Positive

• I'm a homebody times ten.

  

  Charlie Puth

• In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Time

• The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Country
  • Religious
  • Scary

• We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

  

  David Eagleman

• The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

  

  James Mattis
  • American
  • Air
  • Sun

• The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

  

  Alan Brien
  • Country
  • Organized
  • Sloppy