Bruce Coville Quotes
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.
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I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.
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I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
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The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
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How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
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Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they the U.S. government have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country...
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Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
