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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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.
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It's got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.
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Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
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I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.
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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.
