Rita Mae Brown Quotes
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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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.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.
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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.
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And I called her and gave her the job. And then I cast Orlando to her. He was like the kind of ingenue-discovery part and she was the established actor that I usually give the guy role to.
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From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
