Colleen Barrett Quotes
When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.
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Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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All great achievements require time.
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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
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There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
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Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
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When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.
