Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.
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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
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I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
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I've worked hard, for sure, but like anything, it takes a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, and then making the most of the opportunity.
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I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.
