Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
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And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.
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I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
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It is not that we cannot think. It is that we are afraid to think. It is so much easier to go with the tide than against it, to shout with the crowd than to stand lonely and suspect in the midst of it. Even some of us who try to escape this hypnotism of the flock do not succeed in thinking independently. We only succeed in getting into other flocks.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
