Brilliant Quotes - Page 11

• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  Salman Rushdie

  Suicide, Believe, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Children, Intelligent, Thinking

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• An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Interesting, Groups

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• I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

  Henry Selick

  Creativity, Thinking, House Of Cards

  "Siggraph: Henry Selick Wants to Make Comedic, Live-Action Horror Films" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

  Sarah Shahi

  Husband, Thinking, Walking Dead

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• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Learning

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• I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

  Michael Sheen

  Bridges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

  Michael Shermer

  Numbers, Google, Use

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.177, Henry Holt and Company

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• Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Kids, Defense

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Guy, Actors

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• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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• Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

  Martha Stewart

  Bulldogs, Blogs

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• But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

  Taylor Swift

  Pain, Thinking, Mayer

  "Taylor Swift: 100 Miles an Hour and Not Slowing Down". Interview with Annie Reuter, www.marieclaire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Philosophy, Europe, America

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• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Commitment, Fighting, Doctors

  "What You Don’t Know About Cancer — Hope on the Horizon" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Pete Townshend

  Class, People, Hypocrisy

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• I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Coen Brothers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Fall, Makeup

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• I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Men, Thinking, Vision

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• The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Party, Emotional, Two

  "50 Joss Whedon Quotes For His 50th Birthday" by Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. June 23, 2014.

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• The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

  Billy Wilder

  Believe, People, World

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• I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Nurse, Twenties

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• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Marketing

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