Bret Stephens Quotes
I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.
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At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.
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One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.
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I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing. They just didn't know what to do.
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I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
