Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.

Jimmy Gomez

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The pay is good and I can walk to work.

John F. Kennedy

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The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.

Matt Willig

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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Ani DiFranco

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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

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My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Steve Coogan

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Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.

Stacy London

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Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Robert Brady

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Our aim is to get people to enjoy 'Bake Off' at home and for our bakers to enjoy what they are doing. We don't want to catch them out. It's a very happy occasion, and it's about encouraging people to bake at home.

Mary Berry

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The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

Michael Specter

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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.

Jared Polis

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