Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Quotes to Explore
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
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Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
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Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
