Brenda Novak Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.
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Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.
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The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
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You don’t look so good.
