Gene Brown Quotes
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
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The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
