George Brauchler Quotes
Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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I'm really funny now.
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I take Epsom salt baths.
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Everyone has some kind of light inside them.
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I remember now how our bright spring green deepened.With the years the seasons changed,And we were lush as the underside of August.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
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We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
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I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.
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Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.
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Army intelligence said the French owners paid the Viet Cong a million piasters a year in protection money and paid the Saigon government three million piasters a year in taxes. The plantation billed the U.S. government $50 for each tea bush and $250 for each rubber tree damaged by combat operations. Just one more incongruity.
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Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.
