Jerome Bruner Quotes
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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There are guys out there faster than me.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
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I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
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I definitely don't take any of intrusions in my private life personally. You learn how to have a sense of humor pretty quickly. I honestly don't keep up on it unless it's something that would hurt someone else. I can take care of myself, that's not the problem. But it's just not fair to bring anyone else into the picture.
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I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and stuff like that.
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I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.
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Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
