Meredith Brooks Quotes

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

Meredith Brooks

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• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
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• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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  • Long
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• If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Thinking
  • Food
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• Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you.The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
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• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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  • Night

• People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do … There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.

  

  Ben Stiller
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• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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• Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

  

  Bill Frist
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• I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
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  • Player

• We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

  

  Patti Stanger
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  • Live
  • Future

• I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Time
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  • Remember

• For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Thinking

• I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it's sad for hip-hop as a whole.

  

  Fabolous
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  • Hate

• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Thinking
  • Happier