Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.Rita Mae Brown
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
Yani Tseng -
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Aaron Koblin -
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
Patrick Murray -
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
Jack Canfield -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Pat Summerall -
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
Aaron Rodgers -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Karl Liebknecht -
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler -
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
Patrick Macnee -
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite -
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
Nan Fairbrother -
Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she's due.
Lyle Lovett -
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
Eric Bana -
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
Natalie Portman -
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
Rita Mae Brown