Les Brown Quotes
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your hair and do your nails. Sometimes, just for fun, I have someone come in to do my nails, but I like to do them three times a week. If I went out to have them done, then I would spend my life at the hairdresser's and that I can't afford.
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
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The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.
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Puccini is my favorite composer.
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The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
