Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.
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He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
