Brittany Howard Quotes
By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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A good leader must be fair.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things.
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When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened.
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I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
