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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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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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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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
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To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
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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.
