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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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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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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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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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 think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.
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I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.
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It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
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I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.
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Do not judge other moms on how they raise their children.
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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.
