Sam Brownback Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
-
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
-
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
-
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
-
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
-
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
-
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.
-
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
-
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.
-
It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
-
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
-
I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
-
There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
-
I am not a 'culture critic' because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
-
My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
-
The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.
-
Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.
-
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
-
Culture is more important than politics and government.
