Bruce Boxleitner Quotes
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.
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I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.
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I just always had a love for television and movies.
