Gene Brown Quotes
The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.
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If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
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I'm not cynical.
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.
