James L. Brooks Quotes
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
