Sam Brownback Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine -
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.
Najib Mikati -
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.
Wayne Newton -
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
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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.
Ramez Naam -
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper -
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.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz -
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
Dan Harmon -
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
Ram Kapoor
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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.
Park Chan-wook -
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.
Nadine Velazquez -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone -
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
Irwin Redlener -
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
Haley Reinhart
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I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.
Katherine Ryan -
I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.
Marillyn Hewson -
A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.
Kyle Mooney -
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
T Bone Burnett -
You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
Sam Brownback