Brad Anderson Quotes
There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”
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And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.
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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
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It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
