Bruce Babbitt Quotes
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
Quotes to Explore
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
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I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
