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Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Morals Decency Public Private

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

Bird Identity World Song Lose Way

'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

Jennifer Chiaverini

Perspective Thought Present House

I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners.

Morning Basketball Hockey Games Club

I've shown I have the ability to reduce spending, I've shown I have the ability to reduce onerous regulations, and I've shown that I have the ability to fight for and restore our privacy and our personal freedoms.

Fight Privacy Personal Ability Our

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Live People Victory Survive Fall

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

Details Worry High Things Half Like

So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.

People Find Way Protect More Pay

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

Future Think About Ever Really

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

Great Money Man I Am Value Lived

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Peace World Sales Up Going Staying

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Anger You Hidden Rage Keep Us

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Rock And Roll Christian I Can Rock

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