Rita Mae Brown Quotes

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Rita Mae Brown

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• Died
• Abandoned
• Juncture

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Life
  • Live
  • End

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Health
  • Environmental

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Doubt

• Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Wish
  • Language

• I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Heart

• If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

• I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Giving

• One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or a ray of sunshine.

  

  Emile Souvestre
  • Mistake
  • Judge
  • Evidence

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Mother
  • Profound
  • Died