Sam Brownback Quotes

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

Sam Brownback

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PovertyPoorFailOurDependency

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

Jesse Plemons

PeopleSayDifferentOne ThingThing

Technology gets a bad rap for keeping us glued to our screens instead of being present with whomever is around us, and while this can be true, it also allows us to connect with billions of people all over the world. For free.

Jen Sincero

TechnologyPeopleWorldFreePresent

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

Andra Day

GirlHip-HopSouthernFan

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

John Oates

BusinessMoneyCrazyThinkKeyView

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

John Major

PeopleStupidThoughtCleverHalf

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

Mike Barnicle

SweatPhiladelphiaSeemWhereEven

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

Jason Blum

LoveI AmStoryBetterMediaBooks

I'm not the typical dress size - being a model just isn't how I think of myself.

Josephine de La Baume

MyselfDressThinkSizeBeingJust

Shirt Club isn't just a series of shirts that say 'I Love The Monarch' on them.

Christopher McCulloch

LoveSayClubShirtShirtsJust

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

Anthony Doerr

HomeExperienceRainbowYouFall

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

Sydney Pollack

TerrorismActFilmGoingIncite

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.

Seth Shostak

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