Brown Quotes - Page 29

• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Hair, Average

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Dresses, Gravy

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• People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

  Louise Brown

  Somewhere Else, People, Come Up

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, White

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “At Wit's End”, p.60, Fawcett

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• Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

  Moss Hart

  Dark, Boredom, Poverty

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• I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

  Emmitt Smith

  Would Be, Imagine, Used

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• I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

  Kristin Davis

  Yoga, Eye, Men

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  Ed Balls

  Thinking, Ideas, Masters

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• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  Foxy Brown

  Years, Names, Prison

  "Jail time fails to curb Foxy's shopping habit" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2008.

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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  Karen Bass

  Belts, Early 20s

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• What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

  Peter Berg

  Girl, Smart, Eye

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

  Russell Banks

  War, Rights, Political

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• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  Russell Banks

  New York, House, John Brown

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• I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

  Wes Bentley

  Knowing, Culture, Pops

  "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

  Ana Castillo

  White, Want, Aesthetic

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• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  L.A. Reid

  Kids, Junkie

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• There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mean, Musician, Example

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• I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.

  Abigail Spencer

  Vegetables, Cupcakes, Sprinkles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

  Jeff Lynne

  Band, Saws, Firsts

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• You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Party, People, Faces

  "DNC Chair: Democrats Will 'Set The Record Straight'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Girl, Football, Pain

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• Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Yellow, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.

  Kara Lindsay

  Princess, Thinking, Hair

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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