Sam Brownback Quotes

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

Sam Brownback

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• I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Strong
  • Living

• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Future
  • Peace
  • Process

• I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Day
  • Start

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Know
  • Harmony

• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • America
  • War

• Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Home
  • Literature

• I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Great

• In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Personality

• It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

  

  David Crystal
  • Long
  • Community

• I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Style

• Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • World
  • Good

• And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

  

  Andrew Stanton

• I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

  

  John Hurt

• There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Heart
  • She
  • Mom

• I don't really care any longer what other people think.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • People

• You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Experience
  • Responsibility
  • Generations

• Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more willing, in some cases, to entertain the possibility of getting along with countries who some would call an adversary, such as Mr. Putin's Russia.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Possibility
  • International
  • Adversaries

• I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Decisions
  • Comfortable
  • Closet

• I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.

  

  Will Compton
  • Fun
  • Energy
  • Stuff

• I've served on the International Relations Committee.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • International
  • Committee