Mary Browne Quotes
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
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Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.
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Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".
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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.
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Status symbols are poor excuses for values.
