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 was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.
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I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.
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The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.
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The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
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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.
