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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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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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
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Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.
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We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
