Jerry Brown Quotes
I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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We always trend set.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
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Management must manage!
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
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I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
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I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
