Sam Brownback Quotes
My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
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Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
