Les Brown Quotes
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
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The best way to be thought honest is to be honest.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.
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Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.
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I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
