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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Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
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There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
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“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
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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.
