Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.
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For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.
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I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
