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Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1979

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Government Name Responsible First He

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Jo Nesbo

Good Children Great Book Chance You

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

Science Politics Political Well Than

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

Andre Ward

You Consequences Sometimes Stance

My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.

John Mulaney

Family Childhood Dinner Think Up

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

Maxine Peake

Women Angry Way Get Women Are Ideal

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

Shirley MacLaine

Think Plan Everything Level I Think

In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.

Robert Zubrin

Business World Game American Oil

The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.

Roman Reigns

Time People Me Think You Silent

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Mick Cornett

Morning Government People Wake Up Up

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mira Sorvino

Father Me How Taught Substitute Dad

Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.

Jazz Jennings

Friend Girl Day Yourself Better Boy

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

Janina Gavankar

Technology Want Race Human See Like