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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In fact some of the best ideas come when you least expect them.
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If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.
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Kids are disorganized.
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
