Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
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As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.
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What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education, your skills, your future, the better we will be off and the better we'll grow. That's the kind of economy I want us to see again.
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
