Bret Michael Sychak (Bret Michaels) Quotes

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

Bret Michael Sychak Poison

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• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Live
  • Culture

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Truth
  • Dark
  • Presidential

• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Events
  • Europe

• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Job
  • Plant
  • Grateful

• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Done
  • Easy
  • Washington

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Job
  • Think
  • Lazy

• A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Audience
  • Win
  • Where

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Men
  • Country

• I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Women

• The course of development

  

  Carl Andre

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

  

  Melinda Clarke
  • Light

• I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Mean
  • Feelings
  • Romantic

• I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison