Brenda Lee Quotes

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

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• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• My customers are successful workingwomen.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Successful
  • Customers

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Present

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Up
  • Help
  • You

• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Best
  • Better

• In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Magic

• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Free
  • Religious

• I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

  

  Larry Norman
  • God
  • Career
  • Earth

• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Man
  • Government

• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Long
  • America
  • Fun

• Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sweet
  • Try
  • Fat

• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Day
  • Cool
  • Moment

• Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Different
  • Better

• For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Great
  • Music
  • Weird

• Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Job
  • Leadership
  • Management

• I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Good
  • Job

• I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Jokes
  • Concern
  • Comedian

• I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

  

  Brenda Lee