Jerry Brown Quotes
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
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When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.
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The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
