Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
Ted Danson -
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting -
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall -
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
Harmon Killebrew -
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien -
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
Ram Charan
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer -
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush -
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson -
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln -
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Tao Lin
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
C. S. Lewis -
The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
Halsey -
If you fail to make a mark, you might not get good work later. So, it is important for every actor to have a plan B to bank on. Here, nothing lasts forever. That's why my husband pushes me to do different things in life.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy -
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde -
Some people live life and others talk about it.
Rita Mae Brown