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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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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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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The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story. You don’t have to believe that voice in your head. You don’t have to believe your own thinking. You can simply observe it and say, “Thank you for sharing,” and then take the necessary action you’re scared to take anyway.
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Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
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When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
