Preston Brooks Quotes
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.
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I like struggle.
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
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When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
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Addiction depends upon keeping the multiplicity of our desires unconscious. When I invite all that I am into awareness, I realize that no one substance, activity, or person has the capacity to satisfy me fully. I leave aside the security of the fix and begin the adventure of falling in love with the multiplicity of the self and the world.
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...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...
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The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
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I've always wanted to become an actress. It's been a lifelong dream, but my family and I didn't know how to do it.
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I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.
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Whatever insults my State insults me.
