Brown Campbell Quotes
My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
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I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.
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What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
