Jim Brown Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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I have a couture body.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.
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Malcolm X was a man among men.
