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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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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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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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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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.
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Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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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.
