Brenda Novak Quotes
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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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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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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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 can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
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We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
