Les Brown Quotes
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
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Instability does affect (development). This is clear: Where you have instability, you cannot make development. But when there is no development, that's also a fertile ground for instability.
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
