Sam Brownback Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.
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I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
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I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
