Brenda Novak Quotes
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
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You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
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I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
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I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.
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I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.
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It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.
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Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.
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If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.
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Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
