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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You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.
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I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.
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You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.
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There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
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I'm a pacifist.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.
