Alison Brie Quotes

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Chance

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • America
  • Tax

• In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Thinking
  • City

• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  

  Kip Winger
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Black

• There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Why
  • Popular
  • Planning

• We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.

  

  John Redwood
  • People
  • Great
  • Law

• I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Successful
  • Kiss

• A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

  

  Alison Brie
  • People
  • Famous