Sam Brownback Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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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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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
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I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.
