Connie Brockway Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.
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I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
