Sam Brownback Quotes
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.Sam Brownback
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
Action Bronson -
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
Ingmar Bergman -
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
Tawni O'Dell -
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt -
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.
Fernando Botero -
I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
Lance Gross
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
Hani Furstenberg -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga -
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison -
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
Edmund Phelps -
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
Karin Slaughter
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
Zach Galifianakis -
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann -
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
C. L. R. James -
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
Tariq Ali -
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
Kate Christensen
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
J. R. Smith -
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles -
I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
Dane Cook -
If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
Marge Piercy -
An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
Emanuel Lasker -
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
Sam Brownback