Alton Brown Quotes

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Alton Brown

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WorkPeopleMeSympathyGameBetter

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

LifeSmokingSmokeNowRightReal

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

John Thorn

HistoryCultureExperienceBuilding

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Amber Benson

MeThinkSelfFeelNiceHollywood

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Tony Campolo

WorkGoodGovernmentCitizenTask

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Roberto Bolano

DayControlStoryThinkingLiving

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Rollo May

FreedomDestinyAchieveMustDaring

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

Milos Forman

YouKnowOutFranceJustHappened

My comedy isn't clean; it's just friendly. So I get asked to do a lot of clean shows. It's like, 'Oh, I have a clean vibe, but I say gross, weird stuff.' It's just, it's very gentle the way I say it. It's not upsetting or jarring to people, because I'm not very aggressive.

Josh Gondelman

PeopleWeirdComedySayWayClean

I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Janina Gavankar

RatherThanDracula

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

Jorge M. Perez

CommunicationTimeArtPoliticsOpen

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp

LifeHonestyTimeLongLong Time

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

Diane von Furstenberg

GoodMotherTimeI AmChildMe

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