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.Les Brown
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten -
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 -
I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
Tamsin Egerton -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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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.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
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 -
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim -
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 -
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
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
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 -
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
Kate Mosse
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You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
James Surowiecki -
Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
Andy Gibb -
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
Martha Beck -
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
Oswald Chambers -
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown