Brenda Lee Quotes
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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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.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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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.
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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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.
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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.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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We are not the people we are in films. I am not an alcoholic. But I portray that. I can't bash up 20 guys at a time in real life. It's just that I do it well on-screen.
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But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
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People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.
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I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.
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It’s still a pretty sexist world out there and someone’s got to stand up and say something.
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I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
