Brasseur Quotes & Sayings

I ask you this. If the Everyman will sing this Song, then why shouldn't the Everyman make our videos, too?"

Yes, of course! Why shouldn't the Everyman make our videos too?

Kanish was describing the business model of Big Tech. Get the user base to create content, which generates eyeballs, which advertisers pay to reach. In exchange, Big Tech shares just enough of the ad revenue with their largest content providers to make it appear as though it's a viable business model for the rest of us. This is nothing new, mind you. It's really just a modern spin on Feudalism - the Lord of the Manor exploits us lowly Serfs to work the land in exchange for our own meager sustenance.

It sounds so terrible when I put it that way, doesn't it? — Mixerman

Character is not developed in moments of temptation and trial. That is when it is intended to be used. — Jeff Wheeler

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners. — Hayao Miyazaki

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. — Avery Brundage

The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds. — Doug Stanhope

No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market ... , they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation. — David Suzuki

On some nights I take a little laudanum and a few months ago Mrs Abernetty recommended pillows stuffed with camel hair. She was absolutely right. — Anthony Horowitz

We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. — Lord Acton

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on. — Judy LaMarsh

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. — George R R Martin