Brandon Mull Quotes
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
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Nutrition makes me puke.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
