Brad Henry Quotes
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.
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It's just a great feeling, once you have a child.
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You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
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Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
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The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
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I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.
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I have always had a problem with my weight.
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You can't really explain why things happen.
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The way to do some things is to do them.
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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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Growing up, I watched a lot of TLC - I loved 'Four Weddings' and 'Hoarding: Buried Alive.' They're so binge-able.
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Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
