Les Brown Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms and now there's this terrorism thing that everybody's focused on, which is really a boondoggle in my opinion. It's just an excuse to clamp down on people's free speech. And corporations intimidate people and everybody's gotten intimidated and that's really what it is, and they just keep going along. It's almost like - a little bit like that Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, or 1984, Orwell
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I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.
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Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
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When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.
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If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.
