Sam Brownback Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
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Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
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Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up - and down - a range of strange and distressing mountains.
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You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
