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Bryan Stevenson Quotes

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

Bryan Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1959

Topics

Challenge People Challenges Legacy

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

Jewel

Family Together School Research You

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Important Young More Seem Sacred

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

Joan Allen

Yourself Loved Go Know Prove Shy

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Jessica Hagedorn

Music Writing Film Theater Very

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

Truth Great Lie Truth Is Enemy Myth

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

Angus Young

You Sound Clean Stage Out Up

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

Amy Purdy

Myself Perspective People Run Try

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Amanda Seyfried

You Mouth Dirty Down Go Sometimes

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.

Steve Nash

Community Me Team Learn Young Role

Beyonce is, like, the highest level. We all reach for that level.

Travis Scott

Reach Level Like Highest Beyonce

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Robert Anton Wilson

Business Government View Right Big

I had the opportunity to train with Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan,' and the program we created was intense and involved a lot of travel.

Mary Helen Bowers

Opportunity Travel Black Train Swan