Brett Young Quotes
There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
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There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.