Bill Bruford Quotes
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
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I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.
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Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
