Les Brown Quotes
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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Never settle for anything less than your best.
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
