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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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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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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Management must manage!
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.
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I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
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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.
