Bruce Dickinson Quotes
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
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Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change...
