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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When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?
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Elle Fanning is my official stylist. If I'm buying a pair of sneakers or a suit, I just do what she tells me to do. She's my red carpet expert.
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Culture is central to what makes us human.
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I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.
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Whatever insults my State insults me.
