Alton Brown quote: "The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me."

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ALTON BROWN

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whene...
ALTON BROWN

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere perce...
ALTON BROWN

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that ...
ALTON BROWN

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking...
ALTON BROWN

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
ALTON BROWN

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff ...
ALTON BROWN

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has e...
ALTON BROWN

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all ...
ALTON BROWN

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
ALTON BROWN

I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. ...
ALTON BROWN

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
ALTON BROWN

It ain't what you got, it's what you know and do with what you got, ... The difference between a coo...
ALTON BROWN

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there ...
ALTON BROWN

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at ...
ALTON BROWN

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's b...
ALTON BROWN

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - yo...
ALTON BROWN

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that ...
ALTON BROWN

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at pic...
ALTON BROWN

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food an...
ALTON BROWN

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Ear...
ALTON BROWN

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn'...
ALTON BROWN

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
ALTON BROWN

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,&...
ALTON BROWN

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If you...
ALTON BROWN

A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leav...
ALTON BROWN

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for...
ALTON BROWN

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the sa...
ALTON BROWN

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
ALTON BROWN

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90...
ALTON BROWN

My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it i...
ALTON BROWN

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mo...
ALTON BROWN

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes s...
ALTON BROWN

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were r...
ALTON BROWN

I grill, therefore I am.
ALTON BROWN

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested i...
ALTON BROWN

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl o...
ALTON BROWN

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to proble...
ALTON BROWN

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find som...
ALTON BROWN

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the ...
ALTON BROWN

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
ALTON BROWN

If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippi...
ALTON BROWN

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the...
ALTON BROWN

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer th...
ALTON BROWN

Our goal is to send a tractor-trailer down to the Gulf Coast every week. We have sent three already ...
ALTON SWANN

He was fed up with people starving.
ALTON SWANN

The outpouring has been awesome.
ALTON SWANN

We've got the whole community coming together to help us with this effort. God has blessed us, and w...
ALTON SWANN

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I beli...
ALTON MERKERSON

Once you've been known for being a great fighter, that's something that you can't take away. Persona...
ALTON MERKERSON

There comes a time when action speaks louder than words. Constantly telling people what you're going...
ALTON MERKERSON

Speed it up. We're in a flow.
ALTON MERKERSON

If Roy wants his father back, that's fine with me. It's working fine. Big Roy has his job, and I hav...
ALTON MERKERSON

As strange as it sounds, Roy wasn't motivated for those two fights. Roy is either self-motivated or ...
ALTON MERKERSON

The fact of the matter is, that when you get to the status that Roy is in, and you are considered to...
ALTON MERKERSON

Roy had gotten bored with boxing. He wasn't motivated for the first fight with Tarver, the second fi...
ALTON MERKERSON

It's always better when you can do it as a team. We didn't catch any breaks last week. Actually, we ...
ALTON JOHNSON

I've put in a men's and women's shower. I'm not a master carpenter, but I think I did a good job.
ALTON JOHNSON

We had 8 feet of water in our house. The house may be salvageable, but not likely. We lost everythin...
ALTON JOHNSON

Just when we thought we were making progress getting the Katrina evacuees placed, along comes Rita. ...
ALTON JOHNSON

They were very eager to be back at school, ... Im sure they were a little anxious because they were ...
ALTON JOHNSON

I have also been at this Legislature long enough to know that it does me no good to win a moral vict...
ALTON ASHY

They gave their all. They [BCC] are one of the best teams in the league, and our guys never gave up.
ALTON GREENE

We needed to hit more free throws, and pressure the ball a lot more than we did.
ALTON GREENE

They didn't give up all season, they never gave up.
ALTON GREENE

I started farming in 1948 and that was the first year I had my own crop. I've been retired, supposed...
ALTON ADAMS

Consumers have much more knowledge today about their purchase options than they ever have in the pas...
ALTON ADAMS

It was a good experience for us. We got valuable experience that should benefit us when we return th...
ALTON TYRE

I'm looking forward to seeing a good show from all of the kids competing. When they leave here at th...
ALTON TYRE

If you want to get some soul in your body, New Orleans is the place!
ALTON WILLIAMS

I've thought about stayin' around here. That's on my mind. Don't think I hadn't thought about it, 'c...
ALTON WILLIAMS

I've seen my brother, and he's the only one I've seen, ... He was at Fort Chaffee, but I don't know ...
ALTON WILLIAMS

They have skin in the game. You would think that would be a deterrent to shorts.
ALTON STUMP

For Kraft it is definitely a non-core business for them and they were looking to get rid of it. For ...
ALTON STUMP

Rackham provided in each of his pictures an idiosyncratic vision of the world seen through the lense...
ANNE ALTON

Rackham epitomized what many people saw in nature and exaggerated it to the point of becoming mythic...
ANNE ALTON

I think it's somewhat hypocritical for the governor to state that we're going to pad her political n...
ALTON ASHY

I would much rather put together a big meet with a lot of teams instead of simply a dual meet. Big m...
ALTON TYRE

This is one of the better honors I've ever been honored with. This award is more of a lifetime achie...
ALTON ADAMS

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single ...
W. ALTON JONES

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
ROBERT ALTON HARRIS

In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the re...
W. ALTON JONES

but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
ROBERT ALTON HARRIS

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the brilliant single mind,...
W. ALTON JONES

I want to personally thank our law enforcement for following the law and doing their job, even in th...
MAYOR ALTON SHAW

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinion...
BRENE BROWN

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
CRAIG BROWN

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
ZAC BROWN

I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
ZAC BROWN

It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best music...
ZAC BROWN

In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
ZAC BROWN

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to...
ZAC BROWN

Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platfo...
ZAC BROWN

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything,...
ZAC BROWN

We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
ZAC BROWN

I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to t...
ZAC BROWN

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we...
ZAC BROWN

If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
ZAC BROWN

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes...
ZAC BROWN

I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am ...
ZAC BROWN

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and g...
ZAC BROWN

I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind t...
ZAC BROWN

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend ...
ZAC BROWN

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
ZAC BROWN

We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
ZAC BROWN

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bi...
ZAC BROWN

I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,&...
ZAC BROWN

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhoo...
ZAC BROWN

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before ...
ZAC BROWN

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for peopl...
ZAC BROWN

Good music makes you feel something.
ZAC BROWN

Forgive those who have hurt you.
LES BROWN

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
LES BROWN

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much late...
CRAIG BROWN

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but...
CRAIG BROWN

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
LES BROWN

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star ...
RALPH BROWN

When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to an...
RALPH BROWN

I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you...
RALPH BROWN

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
VANESSA BROWN

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
VANESSA BROWN

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ...
VANESSA BROWN

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
LES BROWN

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I b...
BRENE BROWN

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if w...
BRENE BROWN

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like t...
CLANCY BROWN

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hu...
GORDON BROWN

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra...
GRAHAM BROWN

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positi...
LES BROWN

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
LES BROWN

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
LES BROWN

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is s...
BOBBI BROWN

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
PAM BROWN

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your bes...
PAM BROWN

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To ...
PAM BROWN

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
PAM BROWN

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then ...
PAM BROWN

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
PAM BROWN

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
PAM BROWN

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling...
PAT BROWN

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens,...
PAT BROWN

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
PAT BROWN

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
PAT BROWN

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety ...
PAT BROWN

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to t...
PAT BROWN

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging arou...
PAT BROWN

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majorit...
PAT BROWN

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the...
PAT BROWN

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low we...
PAT BROWN

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much ali...
PAT BROWN

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
PAT BROWN

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public...
PAT BROWN

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good bo...
PAT BROWN

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
PAT BROWN

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
PAT BROWN

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
PAT BROWN

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
PAT BROWN

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to jus...
PAT BROWN

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
PAT BROWN

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
PAT BROWN

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
PAT BROWN

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
PAT BROWN

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
PAT BROWN

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LES BROWN

John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
KATE BROWN

State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other ...
KATE BROWN

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education...
KATE BROWN

High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way...
KATE BROWN

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like...
KATE BROWN

The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward...
KATE BROWN

Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
KATE BROWN

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
KATE BROWN

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keepi...
KATE BROWN

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
KATE BROWN

Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren...
KATE BROWN

Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed ...
KATE BROWN

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
KATE BROWN

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
KATE BROWN

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
KATE BROWN

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public educat...
KATE BROWN

I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
KATE BROWN

I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in reg...
KATE BROWN

I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's ...
KATE BROWN

No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
KATE BROWN

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...
JERRY BROWN

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN

But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice.
AARON BROWN

What planet have these people been living on?
AARON BROWN

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

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