Rita Mae Brown Quotes
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
