Sam Brownback Quotes

I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

Sam Brownback

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It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

John Hodgman

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I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

Anna Getty

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I am a bit of a daydreamer.

Matt Lucas

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There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.

Robbie Williams

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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Robert Caro

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It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

Jonathan Brownlee

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The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing company - aren't going to work unless you do things like solidarity strikes. Solidarity strikes are illegal. They've been illegal since the '40s, and they were made illegal because they work.

Boots Riley

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Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

Petina Gappah

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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Pedro Almodovar

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My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Shalom Harlow

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I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.

Sean Bean

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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

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