Brown Campbell Quotes
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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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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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
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You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.
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What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
