Celeste Bradley Quotes
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
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Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
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I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Leave this world a little better than you found it.
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I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.
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The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.
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Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
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Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
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Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.
