Jeffrey Brown Quotes
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
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I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
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There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.
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It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
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I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
