George E. Brown, Jr. Quotes
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
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One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.
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From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.
