Barbara Branden Quotes
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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I've lived in Shepherd's Bush for five years with my friend Georgia in a cosy, cluttered flat.
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We used to think that we were aiming at the head and the heart, rather than the groin. The Stones did raunchy. You need balance. 'The Other Side of Life' was a try to get a really raunchy, dirty song, and it just didn't come out that way. We can't seem to make the crossover.
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There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.
