Brian Wesbury Quotes
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.
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Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
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We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.
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In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.
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If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal...
