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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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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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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A Loaf holds many grains of corn And many myriad drops the Sea: So is God's Oneness Multitude And that great Multitude are we.
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There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
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All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.
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Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
