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Rita Mae Brown Quotes

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1944

Topics

Life Live Live Life Control Think

When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered me a job on her tour playing acoustic guitar and singing background vocals, and they thought I would be a really good fit for it.

Good Job Beginning Me Singing First

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

Growth Short Creating Achieving Been

Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.

Family Fear Medical People Smoking

I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy.

Sophie Kinsella

Crazy Husband Career Go Lucky Kids

It was nearly midnight on the night of February 26, 1806, and Alexandre Dumas, the future author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers,' was asleep at his uncle's house. He was not yet four years old. He was staying there because his father was gravely ill, and his mother thought it best for him not to be at home.

Father Mother Home Future Best

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

Montel Williams

Choose Right Who Everybody

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

Music Best Cool Think Always Melody

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Myself Speak You Seem Warning Whom

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Art Reading More Half Only Who

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

Life Nature Happiness Best Simple

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

Music People Color Loved Wrong Want

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.

Work Mother Moving Doing Europe

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