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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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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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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Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
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It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.
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Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much.
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By using TV as a bra... the most intimate belonging of a human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers... to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.
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I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn't write my name on it, but I'm sure he figured out it was me.
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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.
