Les Brown Quotes
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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As you get older, you look at things differently.
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If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
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I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.
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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
