Norman Braman Quotes
We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That's the way the system should work, not taxpayers forking over these dollars to for-profit enterprises.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
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There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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' workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.'
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When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.
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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That's the way the system should work, not taxpayers forking over these dollars to for-profit enterprises.
