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 think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.
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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.
