Regina Brett Quotes
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
