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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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.
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Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.
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At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!
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I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars' records. I'd give my right leg to be able to sing like that dude.
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Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
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Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.
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Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.
