Les Brown Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
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Although no credible evidence exists that the speed of light can be exceeded, writers are willing to embrace the possibility that light might be outpaced somehow. Never underestimate the persuasive power of somehow.
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What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?
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Honor your commitments with integrity.