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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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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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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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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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.
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I think it's important to not just think about what you want but what's needed in the world.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.
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I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.