Rita Mae Brown Quotes
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
Quotes to Explore
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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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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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It’s not impossible my dear. It’s just a very remarkable coincidence - and remarkable coincidences do happen.
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I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
