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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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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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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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
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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.
