Eileen Brennan Quotes
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
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Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.
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The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
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There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.
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When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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Everyone hits bottom their own way.
