Sam Brownback Quotes
Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
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Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
