Les Brown Quotes
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!
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If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.
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You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore - but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I mean, he himself defined his ministry as being focused on the poor, the captive, the blind, the oppressed (Luke 4:18). So, therefore, we join him on mission not only when we proclaim his saving gospel but when we confront injustice, when we touch human need, when we seek to bring about changes that transform this world to look more like it will be when Jesus returns.
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
