Bill Bradley Quotes
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal - it is more substantial.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
