Aja Brown Quotes
I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
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It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.
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If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
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I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
