Les Brown Quotes
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.
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I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
