Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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I definitely applaud Netflix and all of those guys, whether it's Hulu or whoever, for doing original programming.
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I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
