Brent L. Top Quotes
Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I don't see myself as a famous person.
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A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.
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I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
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The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.
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Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.
