Craig Brown Quotes

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Iraq
  • Britain
  • Controlling

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Think
  • Years
  • Reputation

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Principles

• One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Money
  • Know

• I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Always
  • Never
  • Guitar

• In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Changes

• I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Same

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follow my doctor's instructions closely. You need to acknowledge both.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Done
  • Water
  • Couple

• I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.

  

  Martin Villeneuve

• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Missing
  • Nothing
  • Yoga

• All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Money
  • Interesting
  • Running

• I guess there hasn't been a tough enough opponent for me to fight. But fighting a southpaw is OK. It's something different and maybe I need something different. I look at a right-handed fighter then I look at a left-handed fighter, and it's even better.

  

  Brandon Rios
  • Different
  • Fight
  • Opponent

• As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

  

  Craig Brown