Heather Brooke Quotes
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
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Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
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I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.
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As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.
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To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.
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The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
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I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
