#iv

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#approached #did #find #i #inspiration

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#came #century #first #gadgets #i

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#entitled #i #merely #prerequisite #privacy

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#anything #lives #personal #personal lives #stomach

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ↗

— Richard Branson

#creative #exercise #fun #instincts #involving

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. ↗

— Richard Branson

#bath #delighted #had #i #just

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. ↗

— Richard Branson

#between #business #dividing #dividing line #failure

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. ↗

— Richard Branson

#assets #bands #brand #careers #combination