Carol Moseley Braun Quotes
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Being evil is easy.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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Writers are so important.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
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If you show me how to get up off the ground
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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
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There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
