Les Brown Quotes

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown

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PositiveSmilePeopleFeelYouWill

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Jessica Valenti

MyselfMePoliticalTryingYouOut

In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

Andre Leon Talley

BestDressFlyingThinkThoughtBad

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

John Hope Franklin

LifeLearningTruthWorldBetter

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

WorldActionRoadThroughHoliness

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Jeff Nichols

LifeExperienceMeMy LifeGoal

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

Jeffrey Brown

RelationshipMemoryMeThinkingTry

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Aly Khan

WarConflictImportantClearlyShow

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Steve Vai

TimeMiserableKeepOnlyOnly Time

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

LiveVictoryEnoughLongYouDefeat

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Mary Shelley

MyselfTreeSoulI AmSurviveSoon

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

Jonathan Groff

HeartYourselfJoyFollow Your Heart

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

DeRay Mckesson

HistoryBlacknessThe History OfAlso

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