Les Brown Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
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I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
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You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.
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You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
