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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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.
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Instead of someone waiting two months for a test, maybe we can lower that to a week
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
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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.