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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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It's a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I'd just as well not bother.
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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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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.
