Corrine Brown Quotes

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Day

• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Slow

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • See
  • Product
  • Common Sense

• I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Never
  • Devil
  • Catholic

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Important
  • College
  • Four

• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Sometimes
  • Go
  • Collection

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Living
  • Wishes

• I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stereotypes

• At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Say
  • Animals
  • Often

• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Long

• Who the fuck is Justin Bieber?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Star

• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Music
  • Teach
  • Gospel

• We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

  

  Dave Lombardo Amen
  • She
  • Wife
  • Son

• My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Important
  • Wife

• Prejean, who got cosmetic surgery before the pageant, just spoke of 'how women can make a difference in the world.' Absolutely revolting.

  

  David Shuster
  • World
  • Women

• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  

  Corrine Brown