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.
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.
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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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.
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I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
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If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.
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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.
