Sam Brownback Quotes
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.
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I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.
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The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.
