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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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
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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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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
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I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. (14 January 1942)
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They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
