Andrea Brown Quotes
There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
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If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Every community has a need that is cannot meet in itself. The more they say they do not need us, the harder we must try to become what they need most.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.
