Charles H. Brower (Charles Hendrickson Brower) Quotes
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
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Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
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His father had been so seriously wounded, at Vimiera, that he was invalided home and placed on half pay; and in the same battle Captain O'Grady lost his left arm but, on its being cured, returned to his place in the regiment.
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Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.
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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
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Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
