Edward Brooke Quotes
I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
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There are plenty of younger people who are a lot more mature than older men and women, and who are such go-getters that they're more successful than people twice their age, they're more ready to date an older partner than you guessed.
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There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
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Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
