Gordon Brown Quotes

When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.

Gordon Brown

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I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.

Jens Voigt

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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

John Hodgman

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Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jef I. Richards

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I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

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There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Tom Courtenay

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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

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I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

Don McLean

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I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

Conor Oberst

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

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My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could come with her if I wanted to. We were married at the time, so I chose to come with her.

Brad Feld

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I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

Anthony Hemingway

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