Les Brown Quotes

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown

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ChangeGoalsPresentYouAchieve

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

Jeff Bridges

GoodGreatGood NewsNewsAlways

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Ana Gasteyer

LovePeopleControlWorldTryKeep

I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.

Alyssa Edwards

ThinkPersonOvercomeRealI Think

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

Simon McBurney

SpaceTheatreLookingYouLookSame

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Tony Judt

ResponsibilityPastI AmMeFeel

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.

Robin Wright

BurgerChanceEatGetEvery

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

PowerScienceInternetRisePrice

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

Lucy Powell

ArmyVoteRightTaxesPayTurn

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

Josh Brolin

CharacterMeRealityPoliticalFilm

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

Cindy Williams

ImaginationGrowing UpYouCountry

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

Bobbie Ann Mason

HabitBookReadingFinishWithout

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

WorldSecretOutTortureCommitted

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