Mel B (Melanie Janine Brown) Quotes
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
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I'm a businesswoman at the end of the day.
