Rita Mae Brown Quotes
It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
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It's crazy that, as women, we are taught to be cute and nice and polite when we should learn to be less nice sometimes.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
