Brené Brown Quotes
When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
Quotes to Explore
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.
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I've been really, really fortunate.
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I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.
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I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
