Brad Feld Quotes
I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
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I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
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I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
