H. W. Brands Quotes
A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Raffi: I can too marry Stone Cold Steve Austin when I grow up!Bill: Clarice, what are you teaching this kid?Bill Jr.: You can not, 'cause I'm gonna marry him, and we're gonna kick your butt!
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Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
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It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
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Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.
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I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.
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I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.
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A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
