Les Brown Quotes

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Career
  • Deaf

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Taught

• Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime when it is light anyhow.

  

  P. E. Cleator
  • Important
  • Light
  • Dark

• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  

  Les Brown
  • Life
  • Responsibility