Sam Brownback Quotes

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Sam Brownback

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TimeGovernmentStopInnocentChina

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves.

Andie MacDowell

LoveWomenFeelComfortableAdvocate

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Robert Reich

PeopleGrowAmericanLongWayOver

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

Steve Erickson

CharacterWordsMoviesBirthDriven

Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

Misty Copeland

MorningHumbleDayMeAmericanFeel

We have to really appeal to that sensible center.

Dick Durbin

CenterSensibleReallyAppeal

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Dennis Farina

BusinessTimeRealityLongYou

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

Craig Kelly

RespectExperienceSimpleProgress

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Colin Angle

MotherCarBestParentsNew CarNew

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Arthur Schopenhauer

ManWordMostMaterialDurable

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

Sheldon Whitehouse

MoneyFoolLieLyingKnowingFraud

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Seth Shostak

SpaceFeetThinkEndLongEarth

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Rick Baker

WorkGoodWrongGoMoviesOut

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