Bob Brown Quotes
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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Where do you think I was today? I stood straight in front of him (Himmler) for a whole hour and talked, and he... he played with a puzzle the whole time – you know, this glass cube with three balls on the inside... When I finished, he took off his pince-nez, wiped it with a handkerchief – he has a skull even on his handkerchief – and said, "Listen, Ernst! Have you by any chance, ever had a dream, where you're riding in the back of a ragged truck to who knows where, and some monsters are sitting around you?" I didn’t say anything. Then he smiled and said, "Ernst, you know, I know as well as you that no astral exists. But what do you think, if you, and even Canaris, have your own people in 'Annenerbe', shouldn’t I have my own people there as well?" I did not understand what he meant. "Think Ernst, think!" he said. I kept silent. Then he smiled and asked, "Whose man do you think is Kröger?" …Yes, Emma... It seems I'm too simple for all these intrigues... But I know that while the Führer needs me, my heart will keep beating...You know, Emma... Sometimes it seems to me, that it's not me who is alive, but it's the Führer who is living inside me...
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The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
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With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
