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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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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Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...
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What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.
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What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
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During my nightmarish time in a coma, 11 days long, you kept appearing in my dreams, wild, you and Slava, like gypsies & always too late. You were a two-man orchestra & we were always looking for you and waiting for you.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
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They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
