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.
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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.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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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.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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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.
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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.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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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.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.
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As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
