Sandra Brown Quotes
People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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So … uh … I'd better explain the tits. Um … didn't have those at school. Wanted to, but not in the school curriculum … even though I asked.
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The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.
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I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.
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Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
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People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
