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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.
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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
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It's heartening to see talented girls like Prachi Desai and Yami Gautam making it big in films and proving themselves.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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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.
