M.C. Brockert (Teena Marie) Quotes
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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You were born as the one you are.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.
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If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
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I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
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Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.
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I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
