Brillstein Quotes

#1. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

#2. Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

Bernie Brillstein

#3. Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

Bell Hooks

#4. A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Gary Blair

#5. Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

Bernie Brillstein

#6. Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide
what's possible.

Brian Tracy

#7. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

Bernie Brillstein

#8. What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

Bernie Brillstein

#9. The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#10. I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kim Cattrall

#11. The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

Bernie Brillstein

#12. The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

Douglas Adams

#13. In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

Bernie Brillstein

#14. Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

Bernie Brillstein