Brandy (Brandy Rayana Norwood) Quotes
What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.
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Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
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What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.
