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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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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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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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'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 meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
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You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
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Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.
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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.
