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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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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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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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.
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It always boils down to the same thing – not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
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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.
