Brad Pitt Quotes
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I want to love life.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
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My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
