Aja Brown Quotes
People who come from Compton - they're overcoming so many challenges that most people don't have to overcome, but that creates special tenacity and different skills that you just can't manufacture.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
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I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.
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People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
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It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
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People who come from Compton - they're overcoming so many challenges that most people don't have to overcome, but that creates special tenacity and different skills that you just can't manufacture.
