Paul Brown Quotes
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
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I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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What we have currently available is what we have available.
