Brett Young Quotes

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

Brett Young

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• Never judge a person if you don't know him.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Know
  • Judge

• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Service

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Going
  • Places

• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Home
  • Night
  • Fight

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Done
  • Think
  • Language

• I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

  

  Katt Williams
  • People

• When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it's pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai - it's the same.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Pretty
  • Fashion

• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  

  John Ciardi
  • College

• My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Respect