Brooke Valentine (Kanesha Nichole Brookes) Quotes
When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it...
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
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Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.
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I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.
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Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
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I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.
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When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it...
