Sam Brownback Quotes
Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.
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Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
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Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
