Brad Thor Quotes
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I've never been a partier.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
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The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
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It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
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During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.
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I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.
