Brent L. Top Quotes
We don't have to pretend that the sun is shining when it isn't, but we must never give up hope that it will shine again.
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As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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The world has so much suffering in it already-choosing to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the suffering on a daily basis.
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Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
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That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
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My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
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So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.
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A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough.
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So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
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We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.
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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
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I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
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There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.
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Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
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We don't have to pretend that the sun is shining when it isn't, but we must never give up hope that it will shine again.
