Aja Brown Quotes
I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.
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The power of love is a strong thing.
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I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulating any of the brand name investors out there. It is a fact that all—if not at least most—of the biggest names in American finance and industry out there today have proven after the 2008 crisis to be some of the most incompetent people there are. Starting with the untouchable Goldman Sachs, who was bailed out by over $5 billion from Warren Buffett, to AIG and Citibank, who were bailed out by the hundreds of billions of dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), having a name and a history does not make you the brightest and the best. All it takes is one nincompoop with a huge ego or a board of directors who think they are smarter than everyone else to destroy what has taken generations to build.
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I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
