Kent Brantly Quotes
I've had time to reflect on what happened to me. Am I the same person I was before Ebola? In a lot of ways, yes. I don't live every moment with a conscious awareness of what I've been through.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
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I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.
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The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
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I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.
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I've had time to reflect on what happened to me. Am I the same person I was before Ebola? In a lot of ways, yes. I don't live every moment with a conscious awareness of what I've been through.
