Brené Brown Quotes
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
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Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.
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When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
