Dorothea Brande Quotes
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
Hal Sparks
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
Randeep Hooda
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
Tariq Ali
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
Adam Cohen
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
Daniel Bryan
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
Halle Berry
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
Carine Roitfeld
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
Rafael Nadal
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I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
Maude Adams
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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
Barack Obama
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I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
Dawn Steel
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A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.
Gabrielle Burton
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande