Charles Farrar Browne Quotes
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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I never did anything dishonest.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
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Don't complain; just work harder.
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Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
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Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records. Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
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A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
