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

• Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Abilities
  • Live Life

• My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening in Tokyo, opening in Singapore for example, that was always my dream, and so it came about.

  

  David Myers
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Numbers

• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• The reason we were defeated in so far as defence played a role is that people believe we were in favour of unilaterally disarming ourselves. It wasn't the confusion. It was the unilateralism that was the damaging thing.

  

  Denis Healey
  • People
  • Believe

• Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Good
  • Children
  • Friends

• I've served on the International Relations Committee.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • International
  • Committee