Willie Brown Quotes
Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.
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Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
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Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
