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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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
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In antihistory, time is an illusion.
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During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
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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.
