Sam Brownback Quotes
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
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You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
