Sam Brownback Quotes
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
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For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.
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I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
