Eleanor Brown Quotes
Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.
Quotes to Explore
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
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Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.
