Sam Brownback Quotes
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
