"If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic……" — Brenda Ueland
"If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck."
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70 Quotes by Brenda Ueland
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to…
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Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is…
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of…
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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It…
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Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me...…
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I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how…
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Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They…
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
— Ambrose Bierce
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... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime.
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The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class…
— James Morcan
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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God is exaggeration run amuck George H
— Edwin A Robinson
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Watch 'em run amuck, Catch 'em as they fall, Never know your luck When there's a free for all, Here…
— Les Miserables
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Something strange is going on. I hear cries from kids, women screaming and the roars of truck racing down the…
— Sid KidHash
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