Brad Meltzer Quotes
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
