Thomas Edward Brown (T. E. Brown) Quotes
I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.
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Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
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Which I wish to remark,- And my language is plain,-That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
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I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
