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 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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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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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
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Don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of a year preparing him to fill out a few bubbles on a standardized test; we know that's not true.
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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.
