David R. Brower Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
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I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.
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Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
