Brenda Laurel Quotes
When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
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I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
