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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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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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 was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that. Anybody who's a fake I don't like and I don't talk to.
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What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change...
