Jeffrey Brown Quotes
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
Quotes to Explore
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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 love Delta Burke!
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The sheer sensory experience of San Francisco is unlike anywhere else. Not just the physical beauty, but the textures, the feel, the wind, the ocean. It's a monumental feeling unrivaled by anywhere else. Its a world class, gorgeous city. And the coffee is great.
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I had to work at everything.
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I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
