V V Brown Quotes

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

Imagine what we could accomplish if our dreams were bigger than our fears

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.

Do something about your life now.

We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.

Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.