Allmand Bros Quotes & Sayings

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible. — Mark Wahlberg

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements. — David Baldacci

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. — Kahlil Gibran

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society. — Joseph Campbell

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children. — Bertrand Russell

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be. — Richard Dawkins

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia. — Michael Specter

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger

empathy is not a reflex that makes us sympathetic to everyone we lay eyes upon. It can be switched on and off, or thrown into reverse, by our construal of the relationship we have with a person. Its head is turned by cuteness, good looks, kinship, friendship, similarity, and communal solidarity. — Steven Pinker