Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
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It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.
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I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.
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My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
