Sam Brownback Quotes
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
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That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.
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The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
