Jan Brewer Quotes

Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

Jan Brewer

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• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • View

• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • End

• My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Big
  • Whole
  • Trend

• High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Guardian
  • Chemist
  • Perchance

• I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Sunday
  • Forest

• Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Artists
  • Incredible
  • Miller

• I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Science

• The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Perfect

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Fun

• Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.

  

  Amber Stevens
  • Time
  • Work

• Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Book
  • Wealth
  • Salvation

• Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

  

  Jan Brewer