Les Brown Quotes
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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Lewin formally defines a Gestalt as: a system whose parts are dynamically connected in such a way that a change of one part results in a change of all other parts.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
