Brandy (Brandy Rayana Norwood) Quotes
The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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You cannot purchase people’s consent through killing them.
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Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
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I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
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There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.
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I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.
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OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington.
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On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.
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My mentality is my biggest strength.
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The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.
